“When did I lose my freedon? For once, I was free. I had power to choose.” Samuel Mountjoy a talented artist, began life as a fatherless bastard in a rural slum. As he digs down into a childhood of deprivation and cruelty, William Golding, whose reputation has continued to soar since he published Lord of the Flies, revolves the themes of free will, guilt, and unconscious compulsion in a string of vivid sequences given in inimitable prose.
