Rites of Passage

✍ Scribed by Golding, William

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 288 pages
Published 1980
Booker Prize for Fiction (1980)
The first volume of Golding's Sea Trilogy, which follows the trials and fortunes of a warship captain bound for Australia. Whilst at sea he writes a journal to send back to England in which he records the mounting tensions onboard ship. From the author of LORD OF THE FLIES.
Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.