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Golding, William : Close Quarters
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Close Quarters is the sequel to Rites of Passage and the second volume of ‘A Sea Trilogy’. In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fete-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull. Half-mad with fear, with drink, with love and opium, everyone on this leaky, unsound hulk is ‘going to pieces’. And in a nightmarish climax the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship begins to come apart at the seams.
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category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
publisher: | Faber & Faber, 1987 |
item number / ISBN: | 9780571180905 |
binding: | paperback |
pages: | 281 |
language: | English |