Sugar and Rum

by Barry Unsworth (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.31

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $5.65

  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