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The Wooden Shepherdess

The Wooden Shepherdess

Hughes, Richard
Mantel, Hilary

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0940322307
ISBN13: 9780940322301
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Feb 28 2000
Pages: 440
Weight: 0.94
Height: 1.12 Width: 4.94 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, The Human Predicament. It opens with Hughes's hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly fascinated participant in a country intoxicated with sex, violence, and booze. In brilliant cinematic style, the book then moves to Germany, where the Nazi Party is gradually gaining in power; to the slums, mining towns, parliamentary back rooms, and great houses of a Britain teetering on the verge of class war; and to the wilds of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The novel ends with a terrifying account of the Night of the Long Knives, as Hitler ruthlessly secures his hold upon Germany.

This new edition of the The Wooden Shepherdess concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned third volume of The Human Predicament, here published for the first time in America.

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