Free Fall
by Golding, William
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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HINDHEAD, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
"I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002631
- Title
- Free Fall
- Author
- Golding, William
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, UK
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 7" x 4.5".
- Bookseller catalogs
- Penguin;
Terms of Sale
Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.