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Pincher Martin

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In the icy desolation of the North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin is drowning. Then unbelievably, out of the mirk looms a shape bigger than any ship, as he drags himself onto it and comes to his senses he starts to realise the appalling truth.

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Experience a shipwrecked sailor’s disintegration into ‘a naked madman on a rock’ by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.

An hour on this rock is a lifetime.

Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R. Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate – piece by terrible piece.

‘Wizardry of the first order.’ Observer

‘Terrifying . Magnificently original.’
Sylvia Plath

‘Devastating … Violently real … The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.’ Marlon James

‘An amazing tour de force … A blow-by-blow struggle for survival.‘ Stephen Spender

‘Immense … To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.’ Kingsley Amis

‘A master fabulist … An iconoclast.’ John Fowles

Additional information

Weight 0.215 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.5 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xi, 224

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K