Close Quarters

by WilliamGolding (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.39

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.06

  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 beneath them thickets of weed spread over the hull.