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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang Paperback - 1994
by Joyce Carol Oates
Oates's most powerful work yet, now in a trade paper edition. Foxfire chronicles the life of five unforgettably real teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s. This controversial, topical tale captures the exhilaration of conspiracy, the blaze of youth, and the inevitable end of violence.
Summary
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 Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date August 1, 1994
- ISBN 9780452272316 / 0452272319
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.32 x 0.77 in (20.47 x 13.51 x 1.96 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1520
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Revenge - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94003897
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"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
New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful, beautiful, a vivid novel."
Washington Post
"Profound a riveting whirlwind of a novel."
Los Angeles Times
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 07/18/1994, Page 0
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