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Sacred Hunger

Sacred Hunger

Barry Unsworth

A story about 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. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize.
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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

Product Description

Title - Sacred Hunger

Edition -

Author - Barry Unsworth

ISBN 13 - 9780140119930

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 04/02/1993

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 37mm

Weight - 437 g

Languages - English