Sacred Hunger by Unsworth, Barry

Sacred Hunger (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525434115)

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Sacred Hunger by Unsworth, Barry

Sacred Hunger

$18.95
Sacred Hunger by Unsworth, Barry

Sacred Hunger

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Booker Prize

Liverpool, 1752. William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves. His last resort is a slave ship, one that will take him to the Guinea coast, where he will trade for human cargo, then embark on the infamous Middle Passage. When disease ravages the ship and the African prisoners mutiny, William's profit-seeking venture falls apart. Slaves and sailors alike will join together to found a utopian community on the coast of Florida--not knowing that the vengeful, younger Kemp is in pursuit. Unsworth's tour de force is a profound meditation on the sacred hunger--the greed--couched within human nature, animating the slave trade. It is a novel that transcends its setting, illuminating larger truths that resonate to this day.

Author: Barry Unsworth
ISBN-10: 0525434119
ISBN-13: 9780525434115
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2017
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.10d
By Barry Unsworth
By Barry Unsworth
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Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 and grew up in a mining town in northeast England. Descended from a long line of coal miners, he was the first Unsworth to escape the mines. He attended Manchester University and published his first novel, The Partnership, in 1966. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Ruby in Her Navel, longlisted for the Booker Prize; Pascali's Island and Morality Play, both shortlisted for the Booker; and Sacred Hunger, co-winner of the Booker Prize. He died in 2012 at the age of eighty-one.

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