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Barry Unsworth
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Sacred Hunger |
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English |
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Paperback |
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640 |
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1993-02-04 |
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0140119930 |
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Penguin |
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0.93 pounds |
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1.6 x 5.05 x 7.75 inches |
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New Ed |
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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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