The Pyramid

<p><b>Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel</b> <b>by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, introduced by Penelope Lively.</b><br> <br> <i><b>Eighteen is a good time for suffering</b></i><br> <br> Welcome to the country town of Stillbourne. Restless teenage resident Oliver wants to enjoy himself before going to university, beginning with his pursuit of the Town Crier's daughter.<br> <br> But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyone's business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment . . .<br> <br> 'The great unbreakable wild horse of the 1960s British literary stable.' <b>Rose Tremain</b><br> <br> 'A triumph of economy and pungent effect; a brilliant insight into the social rigidity of English provincial life ... A scathing, funny, occasionally tragic revenge on a time and a place.' <b>Penelope Lively</b><br> <br> 'Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br> <br> 'Golding's most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were one's own.' <b><i>Guardian</i></b><br> <br> 'Neatly drawn, funny and touching . . . The snap, the tang, and the tension in Golding's prose is always a pleasure.' <i>Harper's</i></p>