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    Rites of Passage
    Rites of Passage
    Rites of Passage
    Audiobook7 hours

    Rites of Passage

    Written by William Golding

    Narrated by William Golding

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    Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.

    I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . .

    Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a 'hell of self-degradation', it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself . . .

    'It is the emotional veracity of life at sea that powers Golding's exceptional writing ... The fury, mystery and challenge.' Kate Mosse

    'Golding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition.' Ben Okri

    'A master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.' The Times

    'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies    .' Melvyn Bragg

    'An extraordinary novel.' Observer

    To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book One

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateApr 11, 2022
    ISBN9780571377916
    Rites of Passage

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    • 5/5
      Both profound and intensely entertaining. The pastiche 19th century epistlatory style allows Golding to say shocking and hilariously humane things with a wonderful objectivity. I'm looking forward to the next novel in the trilogy.