SPIRE (WILLIAM GOLDING) (PB)

Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. Introduced by Benjamin Myers. 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. The spire rises until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below...