The Fox In The Attic Book

12 ounces paperback.

The fox in the attic book.

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. Also by richard hughes. 4 96 x 0 89 x 7 97 inches language. 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.

The fox in the attic is the first volume of what richard hughes intended to be a trilogy of historical novels dealing with europe and north america between the two world wars told through the interlinked lives of its main characters and their connections with historical events and people. 344 pages isbn 10. 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. Every reader in consequence has to discover richard hughes.

Product details item weight. That it is not universally acknowledged as such is attributable to its author s inveterate reticence and obstinate indifference to working his career as a writer. He is well worth the effort. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young girl augustine takes refuge in the remote castle of bavarian relatives.