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The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Fox in the AtticA 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. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young...
Full description- Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- Published: 01 February 2001
- Format: Paperback 344 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780940322295 ISBN 10: 0940322293
- Sales rank: 205,908
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Full description for The Fox in the Attic
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. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young girl, Augustine takes refuge in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives. There his hopeless love for his devout cousin Mitzi blinds him to the hate that will lead to the rise of German fascism. 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. 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.
