Sacred Hunger
ISBN-13:
9780393311143
ISBN-10:
0393311147
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Barry Unsworth
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
656 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393311143
ISBN-10:
0393311147
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Barry Unsworth
Publication date:
1993
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
656 pages
Summary
Sacred Hunger (ISBN-13: 9780393311143 and ISBN-10: 0393311147), written by authors
Barry Unsworth, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1993.
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Winner 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.
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