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Rites of Passage by William Golding [FIRST EDITION]
FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1980] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Like new!
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. 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.