Darkness Visible, Paperback/William Golding

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" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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. About the Author William Golding (1911-93) was born in Cornwall, England. His first novel, Lord of the Flies , was published in 1954 and became an international bestseller. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.