William Golding RITES OF PASSAGE First Edition
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William Golding RITES OF PASSAGE First Edition
First edition first print hardback of RITES OF PASSAGE by William Golding and published by Faber and faber in 1980. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1980.
The book is in near fine condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with just a bit of light foxing to page edges. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions.
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.
278 pages
SBN: 0571116396
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