Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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- ISBN 10
- 0525936327
- ISBN 13
- 9780525936329
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Synopsis
The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. Foxfire is Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire, its guiding spirit, its burning core. At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novel—charged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novel’s greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates’s place at the very summit of American writing.
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- Title
- Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Book Condition
- UsedAcceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0525936327
- ISBN 13
- 9780525936329
- Publisher
- E P Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- August 1993
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