William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord Of The Flies by John Carey
573 pp. Free Press $32.50 Review by William Boyd William Boyd’s latest novel Ordinary Thunderstorms (Harper) was published earlier this year. In 1967, some thirteen years after the publication of The Lord of the Flies, William Golding confessed to a friend (p 320) that he resented his first novel because it meant that he owed his reputation to […]