The Pyramid Author:William Golding This novel 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. This is a very special novel about love an... more »d the helplessness of those who can neither give nor receive it. Now warm, now sad, now funny--it is always marvelously absorbing.« less