William Golding: The man who wrote Lord of the Flies. [CİLTLİ]

573 sayfa. 16x24 cm
CAREY, JOHN
William Golding: The man who wrote Lord of the Flies.
London: Faber and Faber, 2009.
x, 573 s.., 12 s/b levha. 24x16 cm.
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The first biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Golding by celebrated writer and critic, John Carey. In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher, writing books in his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every publisher he sent it to – until an editor at Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would sell in its millions and bring Golding worldwide recognition. Drawing almost entirely on materials that have never before been made public, John Carey sheds new light on Golding. Through hundreds of letters, unpublished works and Golding’s intimate journals, Carey draws a revelatory and definitive portrait of an extraordinary man. In an absorbing a

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