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Sacred Hunger

Paperback • 1992 • English

Sacred Hunger

By Barry Unsworth

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About the book

This vast, vividly realistic historical novel follows the crew of a slave-trading vessel from its Liverpool shipyard through days at anchor bartering human cargo on the Guinea Coast, then on beyond the slaver's disease-ridden and mutinous Middle Passage. With an epic ambition that seems suited to its 18th-century setting, Unsworth ( Stone Virgin ) takes on a big theme--greed, the animating "sacred hunger" of the title--but at the same time fills his huge canvas with the alternately fascinating a...Show more

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ISBN

9780140119930

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Sacred Hunger

Format

Paperback

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