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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Sugar and Rum
• Author: Barry Unsworth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780393318906
• ISBN: 0393318907
• ID: 02686623
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Weight: 1111 g
• Dimensions: 250 × 200 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 1999

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