The Spire
by William Golding, with a foreword by Benjamin Myers
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“In The Spire, he writes about a visionary. Jocelin is someone who has basically been overpromoted. He’s been kicked up through the ranks of the Church because his aunt was the mistress of the then-king. Jocelyn, now in a position of enormous power, has this vision: he’s going to put a spire on top of the cathedral, which will act as an enormous stone prayer. To achieve it, he’s prepared to do almost anything, and those compromises destroy him and several other people.” Read more...
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