Sugar and Rum Paperback
by Barry Unsworth
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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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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:15/04/1999
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- ISBN:9780393318906
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:15/04/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393318906