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Original Title:	Sacred Hunger
ISBN:	0393311147 (ISBN13: 9780393311143)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sacred Hunger #1
Characters:	William Kemp, Erasmus Kemp
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1992)

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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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Title	:	Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
Author	:	Barry Unsworth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 630 pages
Published	:	November 17th 1993 by W.W. Norton Company (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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I can't do justice to this one without reading it again, a worthy Booker winner and a fine book.

This was a rich and detailed account on life on a slave trader ship. Despite it's length, the pages flowed effortlessly. Some reviewers have said that they found the dialect and pidgin language a hindrance, but I found it added rather than detracted. The sacred hunger is the search to make money at all costs. Slavery was (is) a terrible part of our collective consciousness. The details and description and the contrast to life as an affluent merchant in late eighteenth century Britain are as you

This review was written in the late nineties (for my eyes only), and it was buried in amongst my things until recently when I uncovered the journal in which it was written. I have transcribed it verbatim from all those years ago (although square brackets may indicate some additional information for the sake of readability or some sort of commentary from now). This is one of my lost reviews."...the sky took on a look of readiness for the dark, that depthless clarity which is no colour and the

Here's another 5 star novel I never reviewed. Barry Unsworth was an English guy, son of a miner (something he has in common with DH Lawrence, and more importantly, with me). He knocked out all kinds of interesting novels and this is a real pearl, all about slavery, so of course it's a historical horror story. In the middle of the story there's a ship that finds itself randomly beached on the coast of pre-Miami Florida and the slaves and sailors then get busy and create for themselves a nearly

Another bloated Booker prize winner. Shared the prize with the infinitely more sophisticated and innovative The English Patient. Another baffling decision on the part of the judges. The English Patient is a torchbearer of how nimble and ironically self-regarding historical fiction will become in the 21st century - I'm thinking of Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell. This on the other hand, is old school historical fiction. No irony, no mischief, no architectural sleights of hand. Unsworth goes for

A fascinating and earnest piece of historical fiction. It doesn't possess the layered ironies of some of Unsworth's other work, and I did miss that, but overall, it's very well done.

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