TY - BOOK AU - Golding, William TI - Pincher Martin SN - 0571192513 U1 - 823.914 PY - 1962/// CY - London PB - Faber & Faber KW - English literature- Fiction KW - Castaways KW - Survival KW - Airplane crash survival KW - Shipwreck survival KW - Atlantic Ocean KW - Fiction KW - British literature N2 - Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece ER -