the Pyramid

The Pyramid portrays love and loneliness through three separate but related episodes in the life of a young man named Oliver. His discovery of sex, his near-farcical performance in a local pageant, his relationship with a spinster music teacher--form the foundation stones of Oliver's growth into manhood. The Pyramid is a special novel about love and the helplessness of those who can neither give nor receive it. Now warm, now sad, now funny -- it is always marvelously absorbing.

Author: William Golding 

Publisher: Faber 

Released Date: 1969

ISBN: 0571089887