SACRED HUNGER by Barry Unsworth ( 9780140119930 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SACRED HUNGER

By:

Barry Unsworth

Format:

Paperback

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£12.99

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ISBN 10:

0140119930

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9780140119930

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

4 February, 1993

Pages:

640

Description:

A story about 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. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize.

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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Penguin Books Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1992

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Returnable

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