In the Wolf's Mouth
by Adam Foulds
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Pub Date Feb 06 2014 | Archive Date Mar 17 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze
In the Wolf’s Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman who dreams of home and the movies. Meanwhile in Sicily, Angilù, a young shepherd caught up in corruption and Cirò Albanese, a sinister Mafioso, are fighting their own battles with devastating consequences.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK, Commonwealth and Europe (excluding Canada) only.
Advance Praise
Praise for The Quickening Maze:
Impressive
... The key to this success is the concentration of Fould's writing,
which manages to seem both simultaneously poised and flowing in its
urgency - The Guardian
In The Quickening Maze,
Foulds displays in abundance the same kind of precision of observation
and empathy of imagination that he gives here to Clare...The world he
evokes...is conjured up with remarkable intensity and economy of means.
It is impossible to guess where Foulds will travel next in his fiction,
but it is safe to assume that the journey with him will be well worth
taking - The Sunday Times
The
language is simple, sometimes adorned with fleeting and apt images: the
sky is 'cloud-breeding', summer clouds are 'curds' - Literary Review
The chief pleasure of the book is its prose: exquisite yet measured, precise, attentive to the world - Sunday Telegraph
Fould's
exceptional novel is like a lucid dream: earthy and true, but shifting,
metamorphic - the word-perfect fruit of a poet's sharp eye and
noevlist's limber reach - The Times
His work [is] intensely pleasurable to read, studded as it is with electrically acute images and phrases - Observer
Remarkable second novel...The Quickening Maze confirms Foulds as one of the most interesting and talented writers of his generation - TLS
[a]
luminously written tale...he [Foulds] draws you in with spellbinding
images and sympathetic characterisation. Written with imaginative
precision, it's a dream of a book... Foulds has made this world, and the
characters within it, his own - Metro
Marketing Plan
Winner of the Betty Trask Award
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award
Winner of the E. M. Forster Award
Winner of the Encore Award
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Winner of the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature
Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Shortlisted for the Man Bookser Prize 2009
Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013
The eagerly awaited follow-up to The Quickening Maze by the brilliant young prize-winner. The Vintage edition of The Quickening Maze sold 16,000 copies.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448181612 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
