First published 1957
Tossed into the icy North Atlantic, the sole survivor of a shipwreck clings to a remote, desolate rock. With no sustenance, he must battle the elements and his own deteriorating sanity. As the days wear on, his world shrinks to the unforgiving expanse of his rocky refuge, and his grip on reality begins to slip. In this bleak existential crucible, one man's desperate struggle for survival becomes a harrowing descent into the depths of the human psyche.
Genres: fiction, 20th-century, adventure, psychological-thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: man-vs-nature, unreliable-narrator
Setting: The North Atlantic
Period: 1940's
216 pages · Paperback · Harcourt
Content warnings: mental-illness, suicide