In the Wolf's Mouth
In the Wolf's Mouth
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Published:
12 February, 2015
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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.
Prizes
Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099586869 |
| ISBN10 | 009958686X |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 247 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
Wonderful – subtle and atmospheric. Foulds's prose frequently verges on poetry – with its intensity and neat turn of phrase … impressive. -- Frances Perraudin * Observer *
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 *
Powerful and persuasive… As admirable as it is disturbing. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
Adam Foulds is a young British novelist of striking talent and eclecticism. His style is first-rate, combining precision with a rich poetic imagination. He is able to do more with language, and at greater depth, than most other British novelists of his generation. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday 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 *
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 *
[Foulds] matches his flair for rhythm with a skilful ownership of both his prose and a complex narrative. All delivered with a minimalist restraint. -- Will Dean * Independent *
There's much to admire in this novel. Foulds has a searching eye for detail and an apparently helpless compulsion to wring imagery from his subject. -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *
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Author's Bio
Adam Foulds is a novelist and poet. The Broken Word won the 2008 Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include In the Wolf’s Mouth and The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature. He has recently been awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In 2014 he was named as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet.