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Hardcover, Publisher : Hamish Hamlon, (1995). FIRST EDITION, (Fine / Fine), Original Publishers Black Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles To Spine, 8.3/4" X 5.3/4", 188pp, (No Inscriptions), A Clean, TightBook, With Printers String 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. (ISBN 0 241 13341 6). The Dust Jacket Is Clean & Bright, And Priced, (thus not clipped). Jacket States "BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 1992". [Front (inside) Flap] It is late in the fourteenth century, a time of calamity such as few others have been, marked by war, plague and fear of hell-fire. Nicholas Barber, a footloose young cleric, has left his diocese without the Bishop's leave. He has sung in taverns, he has gambled away his holy relics, he has committed adultery. Now, to compound his sins, he has joined a troupe of travelling players, a thing expressly forbidden to members of the clergy. Trouble enough, but nothing compared to what happens when the company decides to enact the murder of the young boy called Thomas Wells. His body was foud by the roadside; a young woman is awaiting excecution. For the people of the town it is a matter of absorbing interest and the throg to see the play. For the players it is a great chance to make money. But the more they try to act out the last moments of Thomas Wells, the more they become aware of discreancies, things just don't add up, in the official version of events. Led on by the lure of money, trapped in their roles, they find themselves in a situation of appallng danger. As they play under the gallows the identity of the real murderer becomes horriblly clear. Morality Play is Barry Unsworth's first novel since winning the Booker Prize. It is a dark and powerful fable about the masks we wear, the roles we play and the corrupted nature of justice.…
Seller Inventory # 5365
- Title
- Morality Play.
- Author
- UNSWORTH, Barry.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241133416
- ISBN 13
- 9780241133415
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.3 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 5 inches width by 9 inches height by 0 inches depth
- Series
- Book 4 of 14: Norton Paperback Fiction
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Review
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
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