The Spire

Resumen del libro

An apocalyptic portrait of one medieval man's spiritual vision by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook). There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone, and his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker as the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below ...

'Quite simply, a marvel.' NYRB'Superb ... A classic.' Sunday Telegraph'A kind of miracle ... Genius.' Guardian

Biografía del autor

Nació en Reino Unido en 1911. Fue un brillante escritor inglés dedicado en sus inicios a la poesía. En 1952 se decidió por la prosa; su primera novela, El Señor de las Moscas (1954), finalmente obtuvo un éxito rotundo y se convirtió en uno de los libros más leídos de la literatura contemporánea. Falleció en Cornualles en 1993.