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A Black Fox Running
by Brian Carter
This is a book in the tradition of Watership Down, but about Foxes. The hero of this story is a black fox named Wulfgar and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1946. It is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival. He's sort of the badass alpha male (yet sensitive) of the foxes who reside around these particular moors in England. All isn't too great for him though because there is murderous hunting dog, The Lurcher, who is owned by an equally deranged trapper who would like to kill the poor fox.
The Lurcher quite possibly steals the show when the book focuses on him as a main character. He likes to kill things, and all of his thoughts are crazy, must kill everything to make the voices in my head and the stars up above happy variety.
One of the decent humans is a small boy, who we learn at the end of the book has the same first name as the author. The book, while written in 1982, takes place in the late 1940's, making it not just a meta-fiction trick but rather a re-imagining of what the author saw as a boy and mythologizing it. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity.
The Lurcher quite possibly steals the show when the book focuses on him as a main character. He likes to kill things, and all of his thoughts are crazy, must kill everything to make the voices in my head and the stars up above happy variety.
One of the decent humans is a small boy, who we learn at the end of the book has the same first name as the author. The book, while written in 1982, takes place in the late 1940's, making it not just a meta-fiction trick but rather a re-imagining of what the author saw as a boy and mythologizing it. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity.