Rites of passage
By: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Description: 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.