Richard's Feet (The Heart Beneath Quartet Book 1)

Richard's Feet (The Heart Beneath Quartet Book 1)

â€˜Brilliantâ€¦ rivetingly entertainingâ€¦ a masterly Grimmâ€™s fairy tale for adults. There are enough twists and turns for a dozen ordinary novels.â€™ - The Daily Telegraph

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 warâ€¦

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 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, Hamburgâ€™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 â€” his own discarded identity and that of Germanyâ€™s.

Set in England and Germany around the time of the Second World War, Richardâ€™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 Writersâ€™ Encore Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, Richardâ€™s Feet is one of a quartet of novels entitled To Liskeard. The second and third books are Cley and Egon.

Praise for Richardâ€™s Feet

â€œA work of near-demonic beauty, antic imagination and universal resonance â€“ in short, the calling card of a major talent.â€ - The San Francisco Chronicle

â€˜A darkly comic vision of the new Europe, entirely original. Massive feats of scale and formal ingenuityâ€¦what holds the complex structure together, confirming Harrisonâ€™s skill in the serious handling of comedy, is the grip exerted by the characters. They grab you and hold on to the end.â€™ - The Guardian

â€˜For verbal opulence and elegance of linguistic design, a wondrous thing.â€™ - The Independent

â€˜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 centuryâ€™ - Publishers Weekly

â€˜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 Mannâ€™s The Magic Mountain was of its era.â€™ â€“ Library Journal

â€˜Bawdy, turbulent, rise with fiendish beautyâ€™ - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

â€˜A hypnotic novel, very clever, very imaginative, a breathtaking attempt to get a handle on the entire human conditionâ€™ - The Mail on Sunday

â€˜This is a bold and impressive book. Carey Harrison confronts the moral turbulence of the 1930s with an integrity that disturbs and chastensâ€™ - Rose Tremain

â€˜Richardâ€™s Feet is a wonderful and deftly told adventure which compels the readerâ€™s participation from the first page to the last. It is a sharing of intrigue and mystery told with astonishing narrative power.â€™ - Bernice Rubens

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 and was described in the Dublin Evening News as â€˜one of the most accomplished writers of our timeâ€™. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Country USA
Manufacturer Lume Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-06
Format Kindle eBook

Richard's Feet (The Heart Beneath Quartet Book 1)

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Country	USA
Manufacturer	Lume Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-10-06
Format	Kindle eBook