A review by chaydgc
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

5.0

I searched it out as an aspirational fox-hunter; more than satisfactory on that point-- no pulled punches. I have read only a bit of his poetry, but this volume is such an affecting demonstration of his sensibility and artistry in manipulating form and content, fact and fiction, to produce a narrative that manages to be modernist in its convention and brutal in its discretion, indicting the reader along with the narrator. I'm fairly stunned, and searching out the next 2 volumes. I can't believe the trilogy is out of print.