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Synopsis
Dean Jocelin has a vision that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. The masons anxiously advise against it, and things have happened around the cathedral which it is better not to question men too closely about. But, without foundations, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls darkly on the world below, and most darkly on the Dean himself. The Spire is an impressively powerful portrait of one man's possessed will, and of the towering folly he creates
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About the Author
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and witnessed the sinking of the Bismarck. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1983. He died in 1993
Review
In the 14th century, when men broke their backs and lost their lives toiling with stone to build the great cathedrals, Den Jocelin is visited by an angel who tells him to erect a spire upon a building that has no foundations. Despised as a lunatic and self-deceiver, Jocelin's will forces the spire upwards, course by course, until the pillars begin to sing and the earth to crawl. Golding's exposition of one man's struggle with the noble and ignoble sides of his nature confirmed him in 1964 as a writer of fantastic imaginative power, and the magic of this book is still extraordinarily potent to me today. (Kirkus (UK))
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- PublisherFABER & FABER INC *
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0571192572
- ISBN 13 9780571192571
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages223
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