Barry Unsworth: The Quality of Mercy

Cover: 9780099538226 | The Quality of Mercy | Barry Unsworth | Taschenbuch | 294 S. | 2012

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Beschreibung

It is the spring of 1767 two years after the events of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger. Erasmus Kemp the son of a Liverpool slave ship owner has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. However Sullivan the Irish fiddler has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England stealing and scamming as he goes.

In London Kemp is looking to invest some of his fortune on Britain's new industries: coal-mining and steel. When he receives a tip about some mines for sale in East Durham Kemp sees the business opportunity he has been waiting for and he too makes his way north to the very same village that Sullivan is heading for&

Über den Autor

Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 in Durham. He was the author of many novels, including Pascali's Island, which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize; Stone Virgin (1985); Sacred Hunger, which was joint winner of the 1992 Booker Prize; Morality Play, which was shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize; Losing Nelson (1999); The Songs of the King (2002); The Ruby in Her Navel (2006); Land of Marvels (2009); and The Quality of Mercy (2011), which was shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Barry Unsworth died in 2012.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	294 S.
ISBN-13:	9780099538226
ISBN-10:	0099538229
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Unsworth, Barry
Hersteller:	Windmill Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	198 x 129 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Barry Unsworth
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.09.2012
Gewicht:	0,367 kg