{"product_id":"9781590175323","title":"The Wooden Shepherdess","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Wooden Shepherdess\u003c\/i\u003e is the sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Fox in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e,  and the second volume of Richard Hughes’s monumental historical  fiction, “The Human Predicament.” It opens with Hughes’s hero Augustine  in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an  increasingly fascinated participant in a country intoxicated with sex,  violence, and booze. In brilliant cinematic style, the book then moves  to Germany, where the Nazi Party is gradually gaining in power; to the  slums, mining towns, parliamentary back rooms, and great houses of a  Britain teetering on the verge of class war; and to the wilds of the  Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The novel ends with a terrifying account of  the Night of the Long Knives, as Hitler ruthlessly secures his hold upon  Germany. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This new edition of the \u003ci\u003eThe Wooden Shepherdess\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned  third volume of “The Human Predicament,” here published for the first  time in America.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137970159856,"sku":"9781590175323","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175323_p0.jpg?v=1763801935","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175323","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}