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Barcode37821002542559
StatusChecked Out
LocationMarshall District
TitleFox : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
AuthorOates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Call NoFIC OAT
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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FIC OAT Due on 7/14/2025  

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International Standard Book Number 9780593978085
Personal Name Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Title Statement Fox : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint London ; New York : Hogarth, 2025
Physical Description 651 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary, Etc. "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Boarding schools Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Missing persons Investigation Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Investigation Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term English teachers Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Secrecy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Manipulative behavior Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.

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