The Double Tongue
- ISBN-10
- 0374526370
- ISBN-13
- 9780374526375
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 165
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-10
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- William Golding
Description
A final draft of Nobel Laureate William Golding's last novel, published two years after his sudden death in 1993. The story explores the relationships between the mystical, the sacred, and the profane in ancient Greece through an octogenarian prophetess's account of her life from birth onward. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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