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Barry Unsworth Information
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 Barry Unsworth (born August 8 1930) is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. He has published 14 novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger. Unsworth was...


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 World and I
The Dark Angel : Barry Unsworth's Career.
04/01/2000: 983 words, approx. 3 pages By introducing himself into his most recent narrative as the author of a book on the slave trade, Barry Unsworth wryly acknowledges that he is best known for Sacred Hunger, which shared the Booker Prize for fiction in 1992. Though "set" securely in...
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Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Anatole Broyard
1,488 words, approx. 5 pages
 In the following review, Broyard compares Unsworth's The Big Day to MacDonald Harris' Yukiko. Though his critical evaluation focuses more on Yukiko, Broyard uses it to illustrate why he finds The Big Day a disappointing follow-up to Mooncranker's Gift.
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Critical Review by Richard Eder
1,295 words, approx. 4 pages
 In the following review, Eder considers After Hannibal a "dazzling" exploration of history, greed, and betrayal.
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Critical Review by Janet Burroway
1,144 words, approx. 4 pages
 In the following review, Burroway cites minor flaws in Morality Play, but otherwise praises the novel's deft universality of theme.


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