Rites of Passage
by William Golding
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In the early 1800s, Edmund Talbot, a young and rather priggish Englishman, takes passage on a boat heading for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government. In addition to Talbot, many of the eccentric passengers--a sexually predatory sailor, the aging coquette Miss Zenobia Brocklebank, the ship's tyrannical captain--undergo profound changes in the course of the voyage, during which a naive clergyman is victimized and, finally, pushed to suicide. These events are described in the diary Talbot keeps en route. "Rites of Passage" won the Booker McConnell prize in 1980.
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Date 1980 |
Price $6.00 |
 Good |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 1988 |
Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Audio Cassette |
Publisher Isis Audio |
Date 1990 |
Price $123.58 |
Very Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Date 1980 |
Price $1.00 |
Very Good |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Consortium Book Sales & Dist |
Date 1990 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Good |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Berkley Pub Group |
Date 1982 |
Price $1.00 |
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"'Rites of passage' is as skillful and resonant as the best of William Golding's other novels, which are among the best written by any Englishman these past 25 years."
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