Richard's Feet, by Carey Harrison
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In the bitter spring of 1948, an Englishman walks across Soviet Germany, against a tide of refugees, searching for the woman he fell in love with before the war. He will become a lord of the underworld in a country rising from the ashes, where confidence is fast becoming a national trick, and where no one is who they seem, or who they claim to be. For Richard Thurgo, a man eager to reinvent himself, it is heaven on earth. Richard is presumed to be dead and buried. But to be exact, a pair of feet are dead and buried - they alone remained intact, beneath the wreckage of a crashed and burnt-out jeep. Richard is alive and ready to embrace a new identity. Faking his own death, Richard adopts a new name and career on the Reeperbahn, Hamburg’s busy red-light district. As Germany prospers in the fifties and sixties so does Richard, now an influential figure in the underworld, but two threats continue to hang over him: his own discarded identity — and Germany’s. Set in England and Germany around the time of the Second World War, ‘Richard’s Feet’ is a magnificent story of intrigue and obsession. It follows the adventures of an unscrupulous Englishman whose formative experiences in the Germany of the thirties, both erotic and political, draw him back there after the war. Winner of the 1990 UK Society of Writers’ Encore Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, ‘Richard’s Feet’ is one of a quartet of novels entitled ‘To Liskeard’. The second and third books are ‘Cley’ and ‘Egon’. “A work of near-demonic beauty, antic imagination and universal resonance – in short, the calling card of a major talent.” - The San Francisco Chronicle “A darkly comic vision of the new Europe, entirely original. Massive feats of scale and formal ingenuity…what holds the complex structure together, confirming Harrison’s skill in the serious handling of comedy, is the grip exerted by the characters. They grab you and hold on to the end.” - The Guardian “Brilliant… rivetingly entertaining… a masterly Grimm’s fairy tale for adults. There are enough twists and turns for a dozen ordinary novels.” - The Daily Telegraph “For verbal opulence and elegance of linguistic design, a wondrous thing.” - The Independent “Holds the reader spellbound through his insinuating voice, his exultant love of language and sheer storytelling power. In its surprise twists and turns, this astonishing, affecting, rich novel mirrors the dislocation of our century” - Publishers Weekly “As the auspicious opening of a planned tetralogy, it suggests the completed work may be as thorough an examination of the postwar European consciousness as Mann’s The Magic Mountain was of its era.” - Library Journal “Bawdy, turbulent, rise with fiendish beauty” - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A hypnotic novel, very clever, very imaginative, a breathtaking attempt to get a handle on the entire human condition” - The Mail on Sunday ‘This is a bold and impressive book. Carey Harrison confronts the moral turbulence of the 1930s with an integrity that disturbs and chastens’ - Rose Tremain ‘Richard’s Feet is a wonderful and deftly told adventure which compels the reader’s participation from the first page to the last. It is a sharing of intrigue and mystery told with astonishing narrative power.’ - Bernice Rubens Described in the Dublin Evening News as ‘one of the most accomplished writers of our time,’ Carey Harrison was born in Britain and raised in the United States where he has spent the majority of his working life. He began as a stage playwright, completing 42 plays for the stage and forty plays for BBC radio. He is also an actor, teach and novelist. He lives in Woodstock, New York. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks.
Richard's Feet, by Carey Harrison- Amazon Sales Rank: #663096 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Released on: 2015-10-05
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Anglo-Irish Misfit Finds His Niche in Post War Germany By Stuart W. Mirsky Powerful prose and a naively blundering protagonist characterize this vast tale of pre-war hankering and post-war stumbling as Richard Thurgo, a young and reluctant London solicitor, gets sucked into a world which is never quite what it seems. Drawn to the Hamburg region of Germany as a young man, in the nineteen thirties, through the glamorous goings-on of a somewhat mysterious elder brother, the young Thurgo discovers a sense of comfort in the dark German countryside that he never found at home. Still he manages to stumble about and disgrace himself and lose what he most wants while there.Back in England he tries to make a go of things before and during the years of conflict with Hitler but, when the war is finally won, he finds himself suddenly yanked away again, this time to a world of intrigue on the Mediterranean, courtesy of a dead relative. Smuggling, war-contraband and a case of mistaken identity suddenly give Thurgo a chance at a new life (and, perhaps, to revive what he had before the war) so off he goes to defeated Germany under an assumed identity where his pre-war facility with the German language enables him to pass himself off as a native. There he falls in with all sorts of reckless and feckless fellows, on the margins of cold-war politics, espionage and Hamburg's growing underworld, where he makes a place for himself, though it is never the one he thinks he has made. In the end he rises, more by accident than design, to be a kingpin in that underworld, though he is ever an outsider and a man who gets the signals wrong.This is a tale of losing and finding and losing again, filtered through the clumsy and groping soul of a British expatriate who, for much of the tale, seems to forget he is English. But English he is and the homeland exerts a relentless tidal pull upon him at the end. This Thurgo is a sensitive soul, if lost and awkward in his dealings with others, as clumsy in his relationships with those around him, as he is physically: an overlarge and somewhat uncooordinated fellow whose imposing size stands him in good stead as lieutenant to a Hamburg gangster with a Nazi past. Thurgo, too, slides in and out of the Nazi shadow, abetted at times by unseen hands from home and in the British secret service in the occupied German territories.From youth to aging underworld kingpin, Righard Thurgo conducts us on his magical mystery tour of a life which is as alien to him at the end as it was at the beginning. He is never clear why he gave up what he had for the German persona he adopted but in the end he cannot hold onto that either, or to any of those whose lives touched his. He is the lost ship which has slipped its moorings, wandering about on the open sea, wind-driven and storm tossed, a man of reflection in a body and world demanding action. And so he is a reluctant actor in that world, an always astute, if perversely unperceptive, observer of the activities around him. This is a big book and one which is filtered through the unreliable eyes of an unreliable spirit but it is rife with insight and recreates a world of new beginnings though these beginnings don't offer solace, in the end, to the soul which sought them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. One of the best contemporary novels I've read By D. Wayne I read this book about 5 years ago and have searched for other books by it's author. I've endured many embarassing moments asking big bookstore chain teenage employees if they have anything else by the guy that wrote "Richard's Feet," but it is truly a great book. I read several novels a week and I like books with strong characters, especially anti-hero's like in "The Ginger Man" by Donleavy. You'll love it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Richard's Feet: A Novel by Carey Harrison By Quatsch A close friend of Harrison's introduced me to his thinking, wit, and insight and knowledge of history before and during WWII. Being of German background, and having experienced some of his accounts as a child, Harrison's book has become very dear. I have ordered many copies and distributed them to my children as well as friends. I can recommend it most highly for further better understanding Europe and the political wold of the Nazi ear.In regard to the various dealers who helped find copies of the books in really perfect condition, I can recommend any of them most highly.
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