The Pyramid
224 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1967
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ISBN: 9780571192526
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Gardners Books
Publication date: 1 January 1997
Description
Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is Golding's funniest and most light-hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, and all the tragedy and farce of life in a small community
