{"product_id":"books-sugar-and-rum-by-barry-unsworth","title":"Sugar and Rum","description":"Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with varying degrees of literary talent. Caught up in a series of bizarre events, Benson nevertheless finds his own imagination sparked by an encounter with two old army colleagues: Thompson, down-and-out and homeless; and Slater, a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. In trying to heal old wounds, Benson unleashes a plan that just may blow up in his face. \"There is a violent resolution to this obsessive and provocative novel that examines the abscesses and abysses beneath the violence of urban life and offers a quixotic personal answer.\" — The Times [London] \"Fine descriptive writing and spirited humanity.\" — The Guardian Published for the first time in the United States Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669307416849,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780393318906.jpg?v=1781507552","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-sugar-and-rum-by-barry-unsworth","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}