The Fox in the Attic
A Germany, Historical, British Literature book. Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe...
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...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 326 pages
- ISBN: 9780940322295 / 940322293
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Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and landscape the self-portrait the people who live there paint on it. But no, hold hard! Surely, rather the people who have lived there; for landscape is always at least one generation behind in its portrayal. Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic
A sprawling plot that was the start of an unfinished trilogy linking the two World Wars, it starts in England with several characters and then moves via Alexandra, who travels to visit German relatives, to Bavaria. Here is the really interesting bit, as I had no knowledge of the Putsch and Hitler's early attempts at a political coup.... Sort of deceiving, the first half of the book I loved (which centered around the killing of a young girl, the body of whom the main character, Augustine, discovers). The second half of the book slowed down a bit too much for me as it began to incorporate the dawning of World War II. Too bad Hughes never finished his trilogy. everyone
