- Title : The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics)
- Author : Hughes
- Rating : 4.93 (731 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-9-17
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 344 Pages
- Asin : 0940322293
- Language : English
Let's toss together a few pages of worthless 'information', give it a catchy title, and make some lunch money. This book is a muddled account, which reuses often used myths and stories from those who have their own personal agenda in play.To be honest I became worried from almost the first chapter - when we are once again treated to the story of Mimi dodging the bombs to vis
Let's toss together a few pages of worthless 'information', give it a catchy title, and make some lunch money. This book is a muddled account, which reuses often used myths and stories from those who have their own personal agenda in play.To be honest I became worried from almost the first chapter - when we are once again treated to the story of Mimi dodging the bombs to visit newborn John in hospital. The book is great for someone who needs a start to finish overview of exactly what kinds of bankruptcy there are and how to file and even the pluses and minuses of each one. Using this parable, Jonathon attempts to illustrate the `process' of innovation.I particularly found the case study on the small-town Newspaper, Maple, intriguing. He is also an extremely creative and interesting writer. In view of such relevations, it might be very possible that the stalking of Clinton was, in fact, a part of the Republican conspiracy that has been conjectured.Since its insight depends much upon the accuracy of the author, and the candid exposure by his friends, teachers, etc., it may well be just as relevant today, as it was in 199
Hughes’s first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, came out in 1928 and was a best seller in the United Kingdom and America. In Hazard followed ten years later. Richard Hughes (1900-1976) was born in Surrey, England, but his ancestors came from Wales and he considered himself a Welshman. After an early childhood marked by the deaths of two older siblings and his father (his mother then went to work as a magazine journalist), Hughes attended boarding school and, with every expectation of beiA 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 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. There his hopeless love for his devout cousin Mitzi blinds him to the hate that will lead to the rise of German fascism. Unjustly suspected of having had a hand in the murder of a young girl, Augustine takes refuge in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives. 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.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
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