9780385479530: Morality Play
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ISBN 10: 0385479530 ISBN 13: 9780385479530
Verlag: Doubleday, 1995

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The author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger tells the story of a lapsed monk in fourteenth-century England, who joins a troupe of actors and becomes involved in the trial of deaf mute girl for murder. 20,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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th, author of the Booker Prize-winnings Sacred Hunger, turns to 14th-century England with a novel of foul doings in the time of The Name of the Rose.



In Morality Play, Barry Unsworth, indisputably the finest writer of literate historical fiction alive today, brings 14th-century England to vibrant life, transporting us back to this "distant mirror" to show us a world that, beneath its medieval trappings, is full of the same corruption and moral dilemmas that we face today. Nicholas Barber is a 23-year-old monk who, fearing the wrath of his bishop for breaking his vows of chastity, takes up with a troupe of traveling players. Coming to a small town in the middle of winter, the troupe puts on its usual morality play, only to get caught up in a drama of a different kind. A murder has taken place and a mute-and-deaf girl stands condenmed, awaiting execution. Seeing an opportuni

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385479530
ISBN 13 
9780385479530
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