Sacred Hunger
$51.21
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2008
Summary
WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE
“Gripping … SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 … it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins- Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for ‘denying Holy Writ’ … the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man’s iniquitous greed … AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140119930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140119930 |
| Author: | Barry Unsworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 445g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 38mm |
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This brilliantly suspenseful period piece about the slave trade in the 18th century is also a meditation on how avarice dehumanizes the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
Utterly magnificent….By its last page, you will be close to weeping.
Wonderful and heartbreaking….It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness.
About The Author
Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth won the Booker Prize with SACRED HUNGER and has been shortlisted for PASCALI’S ISLAND and MORALITY PLAY. He is author of many other acclaimed novels. Originally from Durham he now lives in Italy.
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