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by Barry Unsworth (Author) "The street that led to the hotel was crowded, the narrow pavement cluttered with stalls and people striving to sell things; small articles of daily..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (19 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140043101
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140043105
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 966,394 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The celebrated Mooncracker, now a pitiful alcoholic deserted by his secretary, his mind almost deranged by drink, was once a formative influence on James Farnaby. He sends James to find Miranda, his secretary and James's childhood sweatheart, at the Turkish spa where sexual liberalism prevails.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Completely unengaging. Am I missing something?, 14 Jul 1999
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The reviews for this book were great, but I couldn't find anything to entice me to read beyond page 60. I could find no interest in the charcacters or plot, and for something which was supposedly a comedy, remarkably devoid of humour. Mr Unsworth has written a LOT of better books than this!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mooncranker casts a spell, reels us in, and never lets go!, 2 Dec 1997
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With Mooncranker's Gift, Unsworth creates a haunting, exotic, and ultimately erotic climate in which purity and corruption are engaged inextricably in simultaneous battles for the souls of men and women. Farnaby first meets the philosopher Mooncranker when Farnaby is a thirteen-year-old adolescent living with his uncle's family in Surrey and trying to deal with his parents' impending divorce. Relying heavily on his religious faith to sustain him at this time, Farnaby finds his life permanently affected when Mooncranker presents him with a bizarre and ultimately horrifying crucifix. Ten years later, his uncle sends him to search out the alcoholic Mooncranker in Istanbul, a search which finally allows him to confront Mooncranker and to explore the relationships between divinity and decay, freedom and obligation, sex and degradation, and love and death. Uniting these themes is the overriding question of what makes us happy, and why. As Farnaby reconnects with Miranda, his first love and eventually Mooncranker's secretary and lover, the separate strands of their lives conjoin. At a remote Turkish spa with baths and a variety of strange and troubled guests, the principals all meet, and Farnaby, and we, eventually understand Mooncranker's true "gift." Counterbalancing beauty with repulsion, innocence with violation, and idealism with cynicism, Unsworth creates a uniquely hypnotic vision of the moral turmoils which engulf us all.
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