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Nobel Laureate William Golding recounts a stirring voyage of discovery in Close Quarters. -- A. N. Wilson' s bravura sexual comedy.
This novel, William Golding's tenth, picks up where Rites of Passage (1980) left off. Sequels ordinarily suggest the path of least resistance, the easiest way for a writer to capitalize on past accomplishments. Indeed, Rites of Passage marked one of the happier points of Golding's long career; it...
Golding, 75, carries off the impersonation of a polished but callow young blade of the period as convincingly as he did in Rites of Passage. For all of Talbot's well-heeled stuffiness, he constantly betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole...
Close Quarters is more than the education, under duress, of its narrator. The novel is a vivid historical reconstruction of what it once felt like to set off for the other end of the earth relying on nothing but the mercies of wind and sea. This experience is an archetype...
Tension between a spiritual core and a realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how...