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.

Author: William Golding

Title: Close Quarters

Series: To the Ends of the Earth

First Published by: Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Format: HC

Date: 1987

ISBN-10: 0571147798

ISBN-13: 9780571147793