It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb.
Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.
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Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel. He lives in Italy.
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- Morality Play by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Rage of the Vulture (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Stone Virgin by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- A Relative Stranger: Stories by Charles Baxter in Back Matter
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- Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter
- Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interviews by Jenny Newman on page 85
- Sugar and Rum by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter
- The Partnership by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter
- The Greeks Have a Word for It by Barry Unsworth in Front Matter
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