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Darkness Visible

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A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes." It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

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Publisher
Harcourt
Year
1979
ISBN-13
9780571116461
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Good and evilTrauma and survivalSpiritual quest

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