The Hide (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry Unsworth
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Josiah (Josh), Mortimer Cade, Simon Thebus, Audrey Wilcox, Marion
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Friendship, England or English people, Good and evil, Voyeurism
- Locales: England
Barry Unsworth is generally thought of as a historical novelist, since he won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger (1992), about the slave trade, and was shortlisted again for the award for Morality Play (1995), a tale of murder which takes place in medieval times. Yet The Hide is set firmly in contemporary England. Although it contains echoes of D. H. Lawrence and of the angry working-class fiction of post-World War II, it perhaps will remind readers most strongly of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock in its horrifying depiction of the...
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