Fox by Joyce Carol Oates

Fox by Joyce Carol Oates

‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR

‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN

A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.

Who is Francis Fox?

A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boarding school. Francis Fox quickly beguiles many of his students, their parents and his colleagues, while leaving others in the small town wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic.

When Fox disappears and parts of an unidentified body are discovered in nearby woods, the community begins to ask disturbing questions about the charming, mercurial teacher, and who he might really be.

A hypnotic tale of crime, complicity and revenge, Fox is an unsettling portrait of a cunning predator, which illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche.

‘Breathless and febrile … an utterly mesmeric account of how one man’s crimes can affect an entire community’ GUARDIAN

‘Impressive and unsettling’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ ECONOMIST

‘Mesmerising … another masterclass from one of America's greatest writers’ MICHAEL CONNELLY, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

'Reading Fox is like being spellbound by a hypnotist who may not wish you well, who leads you, with a deceptively gentle hand, toward that dark forest you fearJoyce Carol Oates has created a sinister fable all the more chilling for persuading its readers to collude in the unthinkable. Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof that Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today' Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects

'I can’t remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive that yet bears so much realism and nuance and depth. Oates is a genius in the truest sense of the word—fearing nothing, including radical reinvention—and Fox is, to my mind, her most compelling book in her remarkable career' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers

‘What a gift this book is! As beautifully written and brilliantly constructed as this story is, as wonderful as the mystery is, Fox’s power is in the many depths of character Joyce Carol Oates explores and how she captures the nuances of the choices people make. I found it mesmerizing front to back – another master class from one of America’s greatest writers’ Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … not for the squeamish, but Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’ Kirkus Reviews

‘Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative’ Booklist

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024, she won the Raymond Chandler Award, a lifetime achievement honor given to “a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.”

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ISBN 13	9780008765583
ISBN 10	0008765588
Title	Fox
Author	Joyce Carol Oates
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2025-06-19
Number of pages	672
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