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Fox

By Oates, Joyce Carol

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Fox

By Oates, Joyce Carol

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A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn “I found it mesmerizing front to back.”—Michael Connelly A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, Vulture, Esquire, AV Club, AARP Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
672
Release Date:
2025-06-17
Publication Date:
2025-06-17
Publisher:
Random House LLC US
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593979443
ISBN13:
9780593979440
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
834 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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