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| #202400 in eBooks | 2012-01-10 | 2012-01-10 | File type: PDF||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A MASTERPIECE FOR THE AGES|By Old Slappy Mc Gee|Sacred Hunger is pure poetry. Plot aside, this is a master wordsmith in full stride; gliding, dancing, shimmering in words that seem to have been born in place. It looks easy, it reads easy. There is a rhythmic beauty to each sentence that propels the lucky reader into the next, seemingly perfect sentence. Find that rhythm dea|From Publishers Weekly|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
Winner of the Booker Prize
A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. 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 wom...
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