The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel
by Rita Mae Brown
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Author: Rita Mae BrownEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: 0345465482
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Reviews of The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel
Book Review: Only for the hardcore Brown...or foxhunting fan
Summary: 1 Stars
For everyone else, this was a god-awful waste of time. Frankly, Brown spent 315 pages on a short story that could have been told in about 10-12,000 words dragging it out relentlessly with ridiculous foxhunting scenes and a conflict between Sister and Crawford Howard that had nothing whatsoever to do with the story she was telling. It was like listening to someone tell you a 5 minute story that takes 2 hours because they have to stop and tell you what they had for breakfast the last three mornings before they can get to the blasted point. If this is the direction the Sister Jane books are going, this is my last one. It was terrible.
Add to that the preachy, tirades about how people just don't understand foxhunting and how the English government is punishing the middle class by outlawing it, on and on. First of all, to maintain an adequate foxhunting situation one must pay dues to the club, maintain a horse (not just any old nag will do either), have a job that lets you take off for romps when you feel like it, outfit yourself in the appropriate clothes with the appropriate trailers, dually, etc. That sort of financial situation is far from "middle class". Face it Rita. You're loaded.
Summary of The Hounds and the Fury: A Novel
Critics and fans alike are wild about Rita Mae Brown?s richly imagined and utterly engaging foxhunting mysteries?and this latest novel promises more thrilling hunts, breathtaking vistas, and an all-new sinister scandal.Millions of dollars seem to be missing after a long-overdue audit of the local aluminum plant reveals a major accounting discrepancy. Company president Garvey Stokes finds himself at a loss?in more ways than one. He turns to his sharp-tongued, ornery bookkeeper, Iphigenia ?Iffy? Demetrios, for an explanation, but she?s no help. Yet when the fuzzy math suddenly includes a body count, the figures can no longer be ignored.
While the town sheriff tries to get to the bottom of the matter, leave it to ?Sister? Jane Arnold, venerable master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, to rely on her keen horse-and-hound sense to follow the trail of murder and cover-up. Throwing her off the scent, however, is former hunt club donor and all-around cad Crawford Howard, who thinks he can go toe-to-toe with the beloved septuagenarian and outclass her club by grossly sidestepping hound- and-hunt etiquette. Against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a menagerie of friends, foes, and fresh new faces saddle up for the breakneck ride to unravel the conspiracy. Even the furry denizens in the fields and boroughs have a thing or two to say about these peculiar humans.
Incomparable author Rita Mae Brown returns to the glorious hills of Virginia and its genteel foxhunting society, where how much money you have in the bank is not nearly as important as how long your family has lived on the land?and where nearly everyone has something to hide. As Sister muses, ?The little secrets leak out. The big ones, well, some escape like evils from Pandora?s box. And others we?ll never know.?
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