Close Quarters by William Golding

288 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction classics historical dark tense medium-paced
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Following Rites of Passage, this is second of Golding's Sea Trilogy. Half-way to Australia in a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a becalmed ship. In this surreal atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneat...

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