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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393311147
ISBN-139780393311143
eBay Product ID (ePID)1097704
Product Key Features
Book TitleSacred Hunger
Number of Pages656 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistorical
Publication Year1993
GenreFiction
AuthorBarry Unsworth
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-006260
ReviewsWonderful and heartbreaking....It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness., "Wonderful and heartbreaking....It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness." -- New York Times Book Review "Utterly magnificent....By its last page, you will be close to weeping." -- Washington Post "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." -- Chicago Tribune, 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.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisWinner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."--David Halberstam, Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp., Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the sacred hunger to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.
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- 28. Apr. 2020
Not an easy read
I just couldn't get into this book. It certainly isn't an easy read. If you like "deep" reading then it's the book for you. It must be good; it received recognition. But I read for relaxation and enjoyment, and I just found it too hard!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Apr. 2024
Recommended reading.
It’s about an interesting subject and told in a compelling way.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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