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The Theoretical Foot is M.F.K. Fisher's first novel, found unpublished among her agent's papers after his death in 2012. It draws on her affair with Dillwyn Parrish, the great love of her life, and sets a late-summer gathering at a Swiss farmhouse in 1939, with war closing in and the host facing the circulatory illness that will cost him his leg. Fisher is known for food writing, and the book is built around meals, wine and talk on a terrace. Readers who come to it for her prose and for the autobiographical portrait will get the most from it; as a novel it is a sketch of a world rather than a plotted story, and it stands apart from her essays and memoirs.
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Readers treat it as a minor but welcome addition to Fisher's work: they praise the prose and the food writing, and note that it reads as an autobiographical sketch rather than a fully formed novel.
The Theoretical Foot is a novel by M.F.K. Fisher. An unpublished manuscript of it was discovered in 2012, packed in one of literary agent Robert Lescher's signature red boxes, after his death. It is Fisher's first novel.
The book is inspired by Fisher's affair with Dillwyn Parrish, who became her second husband. It draws on the life she had with the man she later called the one great love of her life.
The story is set in a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, a stylish American couple. Guests gather on the terrace beside a burbling fountain where baby lettuces are being washed, and enjoy the food and wine served to them. The year is 1939 and World War II is approaching. Tim, closely based on Parrish, is about to suffer the first of the circulatory attacks that will cost him his leg to amputation.
