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- 2008
- year of publication
- 640
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4011-993-0
- EAN
- 9780140119930
- Publication date
- 2008-08-28
- Book
- Sacred Hunger · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
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
