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Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang

Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang

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Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang

by Oates, Joyce Carol

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0452272319
ISBN 13
9780452272316
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1993, 1993. Book. Soft cover. GLOSSY WRAPS. Near Fine. First Edition. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). ISBN:0525936327..

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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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Bookseller
Black Dog Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang
Author
Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used
Jacket Condition
Dust Jacket Included
ISBN 10
0452272319
ISBN 13
9780452272316
Publisher
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1993
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1993
Keywords
NEW YORK STATE FICTION AMERICAN FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR LITERARY 0525936327

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