This is the 1980 Booker Prize winning novel by the eventual Nobel Prize laureate William Golding. Interestingly, he’s one of I think four laureates to win the prize, with the most recent winner Kazuo Ishiguro as well as Nadine Gordimer and VS Naipaul. He’s also known primarily for writing Lord of the Flies in the early 1950s, his first novel. I ended up mostly liking this one. It’s about a ship voyage from England to Australia, called the Antipodes here, in the early 19th century, […]
In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another.
Rites of Passage by William Golding
