Rites of Passage - Introduced by Annie Proulx. Print on Demand

Introduced by Annie Proulx. 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

Product details

• Authors: William Golding
• Assisted by: Annie Proulx (Introduction), Proulx Annie (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9780571371648
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37164-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Adventure fiction, Navigation & Seamanship, Pacific Ocean, Navigation and seamanship, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction