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Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage

by WilliamGolding (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $4.20

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    Paperback 1982

    $3.44
Synopsis

In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0571191444
ISBN 13: 9780571191444
Book Overview: Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
 Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1980.

Author Bio
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. A now rare volume, Poems, appeared in 1934. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-day invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961.Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, chess, sailing, archaeology and classical Greek (which he taught himself). Many of these subjects appear in his essay collections