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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.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    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.

  • Foyles

    Winner of the Booker Prize 1992 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 brilliantly suspenseful period piece about the slave trade in the 18th century is also a meditation on how avarice dehumanizes the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

  • BookDepository

    Sacred Hunger : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140119930 : 0140119930 : 04 Feb 1993 : 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.

  • Penguin

    Through the story of an 18th century slave ship, this novel explores moral choices, the corruptions of greed and material gain, and men's behaviour ''in extremis''. It also articulates current concerns of corruption and distress. The author was awarded the 1992 Booker Prize for this novel.

  • 0140119930
  • 9780140119930
  • Barry Unsworth
  • 28 August 2008
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 640
  • New Ed
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