Morality Play - Hardcover

Unsworth, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385479530 ISBN 13: 9780385479530

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995

Synopsis

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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Review:

A historical novelist of rare talent. . . . A spare and disquieting tale that, like a morality play itself, urges us to question the allure of Murder One, Prime Suspect 3, and our most recent trial of the century. --Linda Simon"

In Morality Play, [Unsworth] has created an entertaining, thought-provoking work of remarkable scope and detail. --Rick Quackenbush"

Morality Play is a bravura performance. . . . The novel is a thought-provoking comedy on the eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put it to in art. On the way we toy with morality and also play our way to the truth. --Janet Burroway

Morality Play is a book of subtlety, compassion, and skill, and it confirms Barry Unsworth's position as a master craftsman of contemporary British fiction. --Charles Nicholl

The entire novel is brilliantly imagined. . . . It is a dramatic meditation on the relationship between life and play.--Brian Finney

A gem. . . . Morality Play resonates with meaning for our own time.--Dan Cryer

A perfect novel. . . . This book dazzles on every level. Its lyrically surprising, unforgettably credible, darkly challenging. You succumb happily on page one and stay in thrall right up to the quick, bruising end.--Julie Myerson

Morality Play is a bravura performance. . . . The novel is a thought-provoking comedy on the eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put it to in art. On the way we toy with morality and also play our way to the truth. --Janet Burroway

Morality Play is a book of subtlety, compassion, and skill, and it confirms Barry Unsworth's position as a master craftsman of contemporary British fiction. --Charles Nicholl

Book Description:

Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them....

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385479530
• ISBN 13: 9780385479530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1