Barry Unsworth was born in 1930 and grew up in a mining town in northeast England. Descended from a long line of coal miners, he was the first Unsworth to escape the mines. He attended Manchester University and published his first novel, The Partnership, in 1966. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Ruby in Her Navel, longlisted for the Booker Prize; Pascali’s Island and Morality Play, both shortlisted for the Booker; and Sacred Hunger, co-winner of the Booker Prize. He died in 2012 at the age of eighty-one.
“A bravura performance . . . A thought-provoking comedy on the
eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put it to in
art.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Brilliantly imagined. . . . A dramatic meditation on the
relationship between life and play.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A historical novelist of rare talent. . . . A spare and
disquieting tale.” —The Boston Globe
“A book of subtlety, compassion, and skill. . . . Confirms Barry
Unsworth’s position as a master craftsman of contemporary British
fiction.” —Los Angeles Times
“A learned, witty, satisfying entertainment.” —The New York
Times
“Works brilliantly. . . . A dark and suspenseful murder mystery;
and a provocative meditation on the birth of a new art form.”
—Chicago Tribune
“An absorbing mix of historical fiction and whodunit, the novel
abounds in vivid, seamlessly integrated details of
fourteenth-century life.” —The Wall Street Journal
“An entertaining, thought-provoking work of remarkable scope and
detail.” —Houston Chronicle
“A gem. . . . Morality Play resonates with meaning for our own
time.” —Newsday
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