Morality Play
Author: Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth, 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….Read More
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