The Art of William Golding [antikvár]

D. ean of his generation of novelists, William Golding came to writing as his profession relatively late in life. Until his middle forties he was unknown, the postwar generation of English writers pouring out a decade's worth of angry and not-so-angry novels and plays while he—hke many of the others, a demobilized veteran—earned his Hving as a provincial schoolmaster and experimented with fiction as an avocation. A rather private man, Golding has permitted only brief glimpses into his life and background—the sort of thing provided in formal statements to Who's Who. The inevitable interviews to which he has submitted have added little to the biographical store; and only in his brief career as a book re-