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The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes (view source)
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|date=May 2011
|isbn=978-1848879782
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|name=Duncan Hunter
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|comment=This review was spot on! I don't like to feel irritated reading a book but I did with this one. (And NYRB recommends are usually excellent). I felt that Hughes the author was always in my face. At one point he mentions "our Lothar and Fritz and Willi.." - a sort of "here I am again, I'm in charge". His style is, indeed, somewhat archaic, though he never actually stoops to "Dear Reader" Yes, some fine writing certainly but again a little bit too much; certainly self-indulgent, as Louise Laurie describes it, and certainly twee in places. Hughes doesn't wear his erudition lightly and shovels it on in spadefuls. A good story but rather in need of serious pruning. I found the authorial jumping in and out all a bit too clever by half.
Duncan Hunter
Hong Kong
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