Rites of Passage
#618 of 8,085 books · #111 in Historical Fiction
Won the Booker Prize (1980).
During the early 18th century, passengers on a ship to Australia include a parson whom the crew choses as a scapegoat.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN-13
- 9780745171401
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(1980)
Other awarded books from William Golding
- Darkness Visible (1979)1 win · 16 score
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