The Spire the Novels." "A most remarkable book, as unforeseeable as one foresaw, an entire original... remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding." – Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books, 30 April 1964. The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the
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