The Pyramid: With an introduction by Penelope Lively

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Pyramid: With an introduction by Penelope Lively
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Golding
Introduction by Penelope Lively
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571298525
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 August 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

With an introduction by Penelope Lively 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, probing the painful awkwardness of the late teens, the tragedy and farce of life in a small community and the consoling power of music.

Author Biography

William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a smallboat sailor and a musician. His first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.