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Sugar and Rum

Sugar and Rum

Unsworth, Barry

Paperback

Series: Norton Paperback Fiction

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0393318907
ISBN13: 9780393318906
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1 1999
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
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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