The inheritors
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Author
Publication
1961 - Faber & Faber, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL61193995M
- OCLC Control Number681678
Classifications
- DDC823.91
- LCCPZ4.G63 In4
Description
"Golding{u2019}s 1955 novel, which he considered his best, tells the story of a small group of Neanderthals meeting Homo sapiens for the first time. It{u2019}s not hard to see why he rated it so highly; it{u2019}s enormously impressive. Imagining a species both like and unlike us from the inside is absurdly difficult and at best risks being done in a technically accomplished but flat {u2018}creative writing exercise{u2019} way, or as something authentic-seeming but impenetrably obscure. Golding{u2019}s creation is loosely informed by science rather than guided by it, much of what he describes is his own invention, but he makes it both plausible and absorbing. The narrative, with a careful balance between being convincingly strange and being readable, still feels original sixty years on. Golding also, and this may be the most impressive thing, makes the Neanderthals individuals." -- From web review.
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