Sacred Hunger
de Unsworth, Barry
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0241132827
- ISBN 13
- 9780241132821
- Librería
-
Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good+. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Slight shelf wear, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK paperback edition with full number line. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover design uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 640 pages; Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. Set in the mid eighteenth century as the Liverpool Merchant sets sail for the African coast to ply the Triangle Trade and take slaves to the Americas. Aboard are two cousins, Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, who seeks a forune to marry the young upper-class woman whom he loves, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon who has lost everything due to his beliefs. .
Sinopsis
Sacred Hunger is a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 1992. It was joint winner of the Booker Prize that year, sharing the position with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. The story is set in the mid 18th century and centers around the Liverpool Merchant, a slave ship employed in the triangular trade, a central trade route in the Atlantic slave trade.
Reseñas
El Jun 26 2012, Okfine dijo:
It was a great read, full of truth and realism.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 29633
- Título
- Sacred Hunger
- Autor
- Unsworth, Barry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0241132827
- ISBN 13
- 9780241132821
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Palabras clave
- Trade PB
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical Fiction;
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- PB
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