Book description
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
Barry Unsworth won the Booker Prize with SACRED HUNGER and has been
shortlisted for PASCALI'S ISLAND and MORALITY PLAY. He is author of many
other acclaimed novels. Originally from Durham he now lives in Italy.
