Pushkin Press Classics: The Crazy Hunter

A rediscovered Modernist gem: a lushly written short novel of roiling family tension on an English farm, back in print for the first time in decades.

Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, seventeen-year-old Nan longs to leave the family farm. When her father gifts her a magnificent gelding, Nan relishes her small freedom - until the horse is blinded in an accident, and Nan's mother insists he be put down. A battle over the animal's fate begins, in which old family tensions threaten to explode.

First published in 1938, The Crazy Hunter is the finest work by a significant Modernist writer and a key figure 1920s and 30s Paris literary scene. Bristling with tension, it is an electrifying short novel - psychologically astute, morally complex and written with heady intensity.

'Few writers have been more skilled at conveying an underlying emotional violence imperfectly concealed' Margaret Atwood