The Fox in the Attic
Author(s): Richard Hughes; Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany.
The Fox in the Attic is both a haunting tale of unrequited love, and a remarkable crystallisation of a singular moment in history. Recording the moment when Germany teetered on the brink of Nazism - the pause before the thunderous fall - Hughes' prose captures both the full weight of inevitability, and the full weight of first love.
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- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : NYRB Classics
- : 0.351534
- : 28 February 2001
- : .91 Inches X 5 Inches X 7.95 Inches
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Special Fields
- : Richard Hughes; Hilary Mantel (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 344