William Golding. First American edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $4.50 on inside flap. Dust jacket designed by Ken Braren. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967. Yellow cloth, title stamped in green on spine. Other than two check marks, there is no writing or markings in the book, 183 pp.
The story "describes the experiences of growing up in the 1920's in a small market town in England of the narrator, Oliver. It tells three separate stories from his childhood, resolving them many years later. All three stories end with Oliver seeing the other main character for the last time." (Wikipedia)
This is authors sixth book, his first being the best-seller Lord of the Flies (1954). He was awarded a Booker Prize as well as a Nobel Prize in Literature (1983). "Despite the differences between The Pyramid and Golding's other works, his imagination and ability to pinpoint the vulnerabilities and helplessness of the human condition is on full display here. As an exposure of the unfairness of British society, it is devastating.The Pyramid is the English Social pyramid, a particularly crippling and terrible structure."- Nicola Presley
