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Susan Harper and Joe Kelly, in love and hitchhiking through Europe, never want this perfect, passionate summer to end. It is the late 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin. But these tiresome strictures are swept away when they arrive at La Prairie, the elegant haven on Lake Geneva where Joe's enigmatic friend Sara and her lover Tim preside - where judgment is suspended and time ebbs deliciously away. Greeted by a rangy beauty unfurling her legs from a chaise-longue, Susan, feeling unworldly and diminutive, is thrust into an exotic mileu of artistic Americans. Here, surrounded by orchards heavy with plums and meadows splashed with poppies, lunches are long, youth is languorous and wine flows freely. As one day is recounted through the eyes of seven different characters, the unseen tensions and desires of the group are revealed, the fleeting yearnings and long-held resentments. A long lost gem by one of the twentieth century's most iconic food writers, this previously unpublished novel illuminates moral attitudes in the 1930s and shows glimpses of a refugee-filled Europe blighted by the rise of Fascism and the menace of another war. Enchanting, light, yet suffused with the darkness of what is to come, The Theoretical Foot is a witty and bold portrait of a bohemian life under threat.
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The Theoretical Foot, Mark Fisher
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- 2016
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