Sacred hunger
£12.99
Sacred Hunger covers a period between 1752 and 1765. It concerns the entangled and conflicting fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison.
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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
| Weight | 0.437 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.7 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 629 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 823.914 (edition:20) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
