in The New York Times Book Review

See WILLIAM BOYD on WILLIAM GOLDING The Man Who Wrote “Lord of the Flies”: A Life. 'Carey summarizes the abiding obsession in the novels as the collision of “the spiritual and the miraculous” with “science and rationality,” and it is this per­sistent hypersensitivity to the numinous and immaterial aspects of the world and the human condition that sets Golding apart from the broad river of social realism that so defines the 20th-century English novel.'