5/12/2023 0 Comments Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household![]() ![]() I have asked myself once or twice since why I didn’t leave the rifle behind. ![]() … as I found myself getting a little nearer to the House with each night’s lodging I became obsessed by this idea of a sporting stalk. Characteristically, he defines this Quixotic quest with reference to the quintessential English upper-class sport: Because – he claims – he had stalked most other game available and fancied it as a challenge, ‘for the fun of the stalk’. For the narrator was – in his airily lackadaisical, Jeeves-and-Wooster kind of way – stalking the Great Leader of this country, at his rural estate. Why? Bored. It starts rather confusingly in media res, at the moment just after he has been caught trespassing by the security people guarding the country house of the leader of a foreign country, beaten up, then thrown over a cliff and left for dead. Rogue Male is narrated in the first person by an unnamed upper-class Englishman who has an odd way of telling a story. It is marketed as a thrilling ‘manhunt’ and while this is not untrue, it doesn’t capture the real essence of the book which is something weirder and more pagan. ![]() This novel is much stranger than its blurb and reputation suggest. ![]() They were beginning to understand that a bored and wealthy Englishman who had hunted all commoner game might well find a perverse pleasure in hunting the biggest game on earth. ![]()
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