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Barry Unsworth, a writer with an "almost magical capacity for literary time travel" (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Barry Unsworth
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Center Point Pub., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nan A. Talese
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385529471
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About Barry Unsworth · 1930–2012
English author who won the Booker Prize
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