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Sacred Hunger

Winner of the 1992 Man Booker Prize

By: Barry Unsworth

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Paperback | 1 April 1993 | Edition Number 1

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640 Pages

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19.9 x 12.9 x 4.2

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'That very rare thing, a top-notch historical novel...Unsworth's theme is human rivalry; his subject is the slave trade of the mid eighteenth century...Sacred Hunger is a tremendous performance' D.J. Taylor, Sunday Times '[A] gripping yarn...Sacred Hunger covers a period between 1752 and 1765. It concerns the entangled and conflicting fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lanc ashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon j ust released from prison...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the hisory of man's iniquitous greed... no recent domestic novel has come within a mile of it' Anthony Quinn, Independent

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Wonderful and heartbreaking....It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness. Utterly magnificent....By its last page, you will be close to weeping. 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.

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