Foxfire, Joyce Carol Oates
Foxfire, Joyce Carol Oates
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Foxfire
Confessions of a Girl Gang

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Jane Gabbert

Abridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/17/2008


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. 

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.

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.

About The Author

Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina) and The Gravedigger's Daughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Caitlin

I love this book so much that I find it difficult to write about it without gushing. I mean, there is the obvious reason why, which is that it's about a girl gang that targets predatory men and boys - and of course, horrible pet shops - with a sense of prefeminist vengeance. Feminist vigilantism app......more

Goodreads review by Timothy

Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we're living now, and the connection must be there?—like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at it......more

Goodreads review by Carla

Foxfire never says die. I have a Tattoo, based from this Book and the Movie that followed,...that starred Angelina Jolie. ;) It's the story of a group of misfit girls, who fight back. Yes, they are a girl gang, but they aren't the offshoot of a boy gang. They aren't the girls of some local hoods. They......more

Goodreads review by Elena

"Ce altceva este memoria daca nu un muzeu lucrurilor condamnate la uitare, de aceea si exista Istoria. Trebuie sa muncesti ca sa inventezi Istoria. Sa arati fidelitate fata de lucrurile insemnate care ti se intampla, sa inregistrezi zile, date, evenimente, nume, locuri. Sa nu te bazezi numai pe memo......more


Quotes

"Brilliant … Foxfire burns brightly … exhilarating."
New York Times Book Review"Wonderful, beautiful, a vivid novel."
Washington Post"Profound … a riveting whirlwind of a novel."
Los Angeles Times