Quality of Mercy Tapa blanda - 2011

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two characters from that book: Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himself?To avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel opens, blithe Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can.His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived: he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end.In the village, Billy's sister Nan and her miner husband, James Bordon, live with their three… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.