{"product_id":"sugar-and-rum-a-novel-norton-paperback-fiction-0393318907-used","title":"Sugar and Rum: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393318907\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unsworth, Barry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52340416905504,"sku":"USED0393318907","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61TqT7HGTfL_ae4fef59-5760-4a85-b50f-8392b7e4ee0f.jpg?v=1789139005","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/sugar-and-rum-a-novel-norton-paperback-fiction-0393318907-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}