Free fall / William Golding.

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1987, ©1959.

253 pages ; 21 cm

BEIN 2018 5509: Number line: "O P Q R S" on title page verso indicates 15th printing. Paperbound. Handwritten price on first preliminary page: 6--. Price sticker on back cover: ISB-N-0-15-633468-2 22 600 $8.95 FREE FALL 01/07/94. Accompanied by: one bookmark (1 sheet); one receipt (1 sheet); one postcard (1 sheet). All accompanying material housed separately. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

Samuel Mountjoy, an artist, is promised torture in a prisoner-of-war camp, then locked in a cell in total darkness to wait. Sammy comes from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. He sees too what men might be, and what he has made of himself by gradual progressive choice. It sends him on a pilgrimage back through his life, seeking its point of departure.

English

July 09, 2020

Fiction.