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W. W. Norton
November 1993
On Sale: November 1, 1993
629 pages
ISBN: 0393311147
EAN: 9780393311143
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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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