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Read ^ The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics) PDF by * Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren/ Mantel, Hilary (INT) eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics) Disorganized but riveting tale of the follies of 1923 Bart Mills A curiously compelling novel set mostly in and near Munich in 1923. Compelling because it recalls the place and time where Hitler first attempted to seize power. Curious because most of the story is told through the eyes of an English upper-class twit—first in his stultifying home base deep in Wales, then in the batty castle keep of his Bavarian relations.Entitled and educated but maximally naïve, Augustine was barely to
| Title | : | The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0940322293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
A magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny, and tragic book, in which emotional and intellectual developments in private persons are seen to be now parallel to, now conditioned by, economic and political actions.— The Times Literary SupplementAn impressive and unusual historical novel.— Michael HolroydHughes does not write with a researcher’s smug wisdom-after-the-event but with an artist’s power of recording the past as if it were the living present…The long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, Hitler’s escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action.— TimeThe Fox in the Attic has many virtues, many strong and compelling moments; it continues Hughes’s particular method of tracing the misapprehensions, confusions, and wrong-headedness of people who are either not able to grasp the complex currents of the world they live in, or are blinded by the obsessions of child mentality or political fanaticism or religion.— John Crowley, The Boston Review
Disorganized but riveting tale of the follies of 1923 Bart Mills A curiously compelling novel set mostly in and near Munich in 1923. Compelling because it recalls the place and time where Hitler first attempted to seize power. Curious because most of the story is told through the eyes of an English upper-class twit—first in his stultifying home base deep in Wales, then in the batty castle keep of his Bavarian relations.Entitled and educated but maximally naïve, Augustine was barely too yo. Theodore S. Sotinsky said I thought that the book was going someplace good, but it never delivered. I thought that the book was going someplace good, but it never delivered. Unfortunately, once I start a book I've disciplined myself to finish it (I buy all my books and that is the rationale). And now that I'm 100 pages into the Wooden Shepherdess, the sequel, I'm truly suffering with my obsessive need to end what I start. Really, the Wooden Shepherdess, couldn't be more boring. I'm surprised that a writer with such a reputation can a. Joel Marks said The end of reader's block. I'm only writing this "review" to express my amazement that this book has not received a uniform 5 stars. Richard Hughes is one of the most sublime discoveries of my literary life. The Fox in the Attic was supposed to be the first of a trilogy. The second book also got written by this very slow and idiosyncratic author (who loves parentheses), and it is equally wondrous although rather different from the first. The third was only begun
The first volume, The Fox in the Attic, appeared in 1960, to great critical acclaim; volume two, The Wooden Shepherdess, was published in 1973. All of Hughes’s completed novels are available fromNYRB Classics.Hilary Mantel is the author of many novels, including Beyond Black and Wolf Hall.. Hughes also wrote stories fo
At once a novel of ideas and an exploration of the dark spaces of the heart, it is a book in which the past returns in all its original uncertainty and strangeness.. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young girl, Augustine takes refuge in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives. The book reaches a climax with a brilliant description of the Munich putsch and a disturbingly intimate portrait of Adolph Hitler.The Fox in the Attic, like its no less remarkable sequel The Wooden Shepherdess, offers a richly detailed, Tolstoyan overview of the modern world in upheaval. A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early 1920s, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic Welsh family who has come of age in the aftermath of World War I. There his hopeless love for his d
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