The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Out of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence comes a meaning that extends far beyond one man and a single catastrophe.

Published
1956 (Faber and Faber)
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