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Synopsis
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 AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent
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About the Author
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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Sacred Hunger
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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140179917
ISBN 13: 9780140179910
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Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Minor edge wear, old dealer sticker to rear cover. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unopened. Cover artwork by Anne Magill. ; 640 pages; Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. Set in the mid eighteenth century as the Liverpool Merchant sets sail for the African coast to ply the Triangle Trade and take slaves to the Americas. Aboard are two cousins, Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, who seeks a forune to marry the young upper-class woman whom he loves, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon who has lost everything due to his beliefs. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 25605
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