Sacred Hunger - Softcover

Unsworth, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140119930 ISBN 13: 9780140119930

Verlag: Penguin, 1993

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Sacred hunger editado por Penguin

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Wonderful and heartbreaking....It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness. 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.

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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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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140119930
• ISBN 13: 9780140119930
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640