Books
June, 1964
You can't say William Golding isn't a game one. In previous novels he has gotten into the skins of a pack of English schoolboys after the Bomb; a group of Neanderthal survivors, faced with Homo sapiens; and a drowning man in the last, oversaturated two minutes of his life. In his new book, The Spire (Harcourt, Brace & World, $3.95), his subject is the dean of an unfinished medieval English cathedral who attempts to build a spire on it. The tower's foundations are almost nonexistent; the cathedra...
