AT THE DEVIL'S BOOTH

by Erwin Lessner ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An incredibly long (700 pages worth) winded account of a Viennese newspaper publisher and soldier named Rudolph Opening in 1938, after the fall of Austria, which traces Rudolph's rebellion against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, Norway and the Russians in Finland. Cruelty, suffering and totalitarian stupidity are the focus of his one-man fight in a fascistic obstacle race. Its aura of hopelessness and horror lend a certain comparison with Out of the Night and The Twenty-Fifth Hour but there is a doubtful market for an unrelieved war novel such as this.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1952

Categories: FICTION