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
Martin Clark (author) Martin Clark (author) Martin Fillmore Clark, Jr. (born June 23, 1959) is an author and Virginia circuit court judge. Clark's first book, "The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living", was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2000 and was a "New York Times" Notable Book for 2000, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a finalist for The Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. His second novel, "Plain Heathen Mischief", was released in 2004 and was also published by Knopf. Clark's third novel, "The Legal Limit", released in April 2008, again by Knopf, was a "Washington Post" Best Book of the Year for