Sugar and Rum: A Novel

di Barry Unsworth (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 1999

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

• Autore: Barry Unsworth
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 211 x 142 mm
• Peso: 232 gr.
• EAN: 9780393318906

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