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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger

Barry Unsworth
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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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 February 1993
Pages
640
ISBN
9780140119930

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 February 1993
Pages
640
ISBN
9780140119930

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