Book Cover
Book
Author Unsworth, Barry, 1930-2012.

Title Sacred hunger / Barry Unsworth
Published London : H. Hamilton, 1992

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 W'PONDS  820.914 U5914 A6/S  AVAILABLE
Description 629 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary It is 1752 and on a wave of optimism the Liverpool Merchant sets sail, her owner and captain greedily anticipating the easy money to be had from the buying and selling of African slaves
Analysis Fiction, General
Notes Booker Prize winner 1992
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1992
Subject Slave trade -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 93172210
ISBN 0241130034
0241132827 (trade pbk.)