The Spire on his back whereas the latter is the will of God. His narcissism is belied by these failing structures he reinterprets to maintain his worldview. "The Spire" is subject to critical analysis by Steve Eddy in the York Notes Advanced series and reviews by Frank Kermode and David Skilton are included in "William Golding: Novels 1954–1967." Don Crompton, in "A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels," analyses the novel and relates it to its pagan and mythical elements. More recently, Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor cover all of William Golding's novels in "William Golding: A Critical Study of
Joe Martin (Author, director) Joe Martin (Author, director) Joe Martin (born 1953) is a playwright, author and theatre director born in Norwalk, Connecticut and living in Washington DC, USA. In addition to two volumes of fiction, his theatrical works were presented in North America and Europe. His essays on theatre, arts in the Middle East, and religion were also known under the pen name Yousef Daoud. Martin received his undergraduate education at George Washington University where he studied American Literature and attended Astere Claeyssens's creative writing courses. At the University of Bergen in Norway, he took exams in Comparative Literature in 1979. He went