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The William Golding-Pyramid

✍ Scribed by William Golding

Book ID: 109349832
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 1967
Tongue: English
Weight: 119 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780571267378

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✦ Synopsis

Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is William Golding's funniest and most light-hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, the tragedy and farce of life in a small community and the consoling power of music.'Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.' Daily Telegraph'This is Golding's finest novel so far.' Spectator'Golding's most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were one's own.' Guardian

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