Pincher Martin - William Golding

Pincher Martin
by William Golding

Faber & Faber, 1960, paperback, 208 pp., 

Condition: fair - wrappers rubbed/creased, binding tight, text unmarked except for light brown stains affecting lower portion of first 30 pages and last 10 pages or so.

Christopher Hadley "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant who believes himself to be the sole survivor of a military   which sinks in the North . At the start of the novel Martin is in the water and desperately fighting for his life. He is apparently saved after being providentially washed ashore a rocky mid-Atlantic islet. He deduces that his naval crew is dead and begins his grim struggle for survival but, as time goes by, a series of strange and increasingly terrifying events, which he at first dismisses as hallucinations, slowly provokes in him an . (source: Wikipedia)