Overview
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.
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
- | Author: Barry Unsworth
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Feb 04, 1993
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780140119930
- | ISBN-10: 0140119930