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Item Details
Title:
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SUGAR AND RUM
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By: |
Barry Unsworth |
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Paperback |
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List price:
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£18.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0393318907 |
ISBN 13: |
9780393318906 |
Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
Pub. date: |
15 April, 1999 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with varying degrees of literary talent. |
Synopsis: |
Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with varying degrees of literary talent. Caught up in a series of bizarre events, Benson nevertheless finds his own imagination sparked by an encounter with two old army colleagues: Thompson, down-and-out and homeless; and Slater, a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. In trying to heal old wounds, Benson unleashes a plan that just may blow up in his face. "There is a violent resolution to this obsessive and provocative novel that examines the abscesses and abysses beneath the violence of urban life and offers a quixotic personal answer." The Times [London] "Fine descriptive writing and spirited humanity." The Guardian Published for the first time in the United States Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger" |
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US |
Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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