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100 1 $aFoulds, Adam,$d1974-$eauthor.
245 10 $aIn the wolf's mouth /$cAdam Foulds.
264 1 $aLondon :$bVintage Books,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.
520 $aSet in North Africa and Sicily at the end of the last war, this book follows the Allies' botched 'liberation' attempts as they chase the Germans north towards the Italian mainland.$bSet in North Africa and Sicily at the end of the last war, In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allies' botched 'liberation' attempts as they chase the Germans north towards the Italian mainland. Focusing on the campaigns of two young soldiers - Will Walker, an English Field Security Officer, ambitious to master and shape events, and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman - the new novel from Adam Foulds contains some of the best battle writing of the past fifty years. Particularly eloquent on the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war, this is a sensual, intimate experience: the immediacy of the prose uncanny and unforgettable. The book opens with the stories of two Sicilians - Angilu, a young shepherd, caught up in corruption, and Ciro Albanese, a local Mafioso - and we meet the same two men in the terrifying final chapters, making it clear that the Mafia were there before and are there still; the slaughter of war only a temporary distraction. A novel about many things, including the impossibility of good and evil, In the Wolf's Mouth shows how individual fates and truths are lost in the writing of history - lost, along with all tenderness and humanity. At the same time, Adam Foulds has remade a history: lifting it out of newsreel and back into its raw and helpless flesh and blood.
520 1 $a"Adam Foulds writes like an angel about devilish things ... The supple, sensuous beauty of his prose is bewitching ... The pace and tension of a political thriller ... Superb novel."--Rebecca Abrams Financial Times "The pellucid elegance of Foulds's fictional voice is entirely his own. He conjures with exhilarating assurance the sense of a postwar collapse of order so complete as to be almost voluptuous." -- Jane Shilling Prospect "Astounding vivid snapshots that somehow mimic the fractured intensity of real firefight: the delicately crafted but deceptively powerful images of each staccato chapter linger and resonate. Reading this book is like remembering war ... an expertly crafted work of dark beauty and intensity." -- Patrick Hennessey The Times "Ambitious and diffuse ... Foulds is a master of concision and clarity, and his prose is "poetic" in the best sense: never florid or rambling, each short sentence weighed and parcelled out." -- Tom Gatti New Statesman "The bleakness of Foulds's message ... is not reflected in the richness of the prose or characterisation of this deep, dark, demanding tale." -- Lesley McDowell Independent on Sunday.
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