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The English writer Guy Burt is "one of those experimenters who fly kites in a thunderstorm." "The Pit" is the author's dark and sinister debut. Depressing, claustrophobic, this novel has been compared to Fowles' The Collector. At Our Beloved School, the end of the semester has come. Most of the students were preparing to go home, some were going on a hike in the Rocky region. But five teenagers choose to take part in the "experiment with reality". This is how the three days of voluntary confinement in the Pit, a windowless basement in an abandoned outbuilding of a school building, are called by Martin, the initiator of the venture. He promises to release the guys to freedom in three days. At first, being in the Pit seems like fun: jokes and laughter, drinking and delicious food. But three days pass, and Martin does not appear...