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A "powerfully done" ( Times Literary Supplement ) and tantalizingly semi-autobiographical novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger . 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

Who reads Sugar and Rum: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)?

Author

Barry Unsworth

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393057201

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.56 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14