Pincher Martin

Introduced by Marlon James
Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece.

'Wizardry of the first order.' Observer

'Terrifying .

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

Contributor: Marlon James (Introduction by)

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