Morality Play

Unsworth, Barry

ISBN 10: 0385479530 / ISBN 13: 9780385479530

Published by Nan A. Talese, 1995

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First edition, first printing. Book in FINE condition - signed by Unsworth on a plate pasted to the front page. Jacket, in mylar, in FINE condition.Signed first edition in mint condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Morality Play
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385479530
• ISBN 13: 9780385479530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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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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