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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, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.
A first-rate historical novel that is also a novel of ideas--a taut, beautifully controlled short book with none of the windiness or costumed pageantry so often associated with fiction attempts to reanimate the past... [It is] the best of Golding's novels since Lord of the Flies. [ The New York Review of Books]
Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has a hint of handling. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 278 pages. First Edition, First Printing.
Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize.
Title: Rites of Passage
Categories: Award Winning Books and Authors, MODERN LITERATURE - Fiction, Historical Fiction,
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1980
ISBN Number: 0374250863
ISBN Number 13: 9780374250867
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Type: Book
Seller ID: 011411
Keywords: Historical Fiction Award winning,