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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

ISBN: 9780140119930 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 640 PUBLICATION DATE: 4.02.1993 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX38mm 437grams

DESCRIPTION: This book is the 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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