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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0156027828
ISBN-13: 9780156027823
Nov 2002
Publisher: Harvest Books
228 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
An allegorical novel about an obsession: in the 14th century, the dean of a cathedral must construct a huge new spire, even though the cathedral cannot bear its weight.
| Size | | Length: | 228 pages | | Height: | 11.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Golding] has always written on...two levels. But 'The Spire' will be of particular interest to his admirers because it can also be read as an exact description of his own artistic method. This consists basically of trying to rise to the heights while keeping himself glued to the ground. Mr. Golding's aspirations climb by clinging to solid objects and working up them like a vine. This is particularly pronounced in ["The Spire"], where every piece of building stone, every stage of scaffolding, every joint and ledge, are used by the author to draw himself up into the blue."
New York Times Book Review - Nigel Dennis (04/19/1964)
...[A] book about vision and its cost. It has to do with the motives of art and prayer, the phallus turned spire; with the deceit, as painful to man as to God, involved in structures which are human but have to be divine, such as churches and spires. But because the whole work is a dance of figurative language such an account of it can only be misleading.
New York Review of Books - Frank Kermode (04/30/1964)
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