E P Dutton, 1993-08-01. First Dutton printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Fading at edges of boards. Some fading on spine and edges of DJ. Black remainder mark bottom gutter. Signed by the author, as always, in discrete fashion on the title page. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover. Has remainder mark on bottom edge of text block.

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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: Chaparral Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: PIRUoat918c
Title: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Dutton printing
ISBN 10: 0525936327
ISBN 13: 9780525936329
Publisher: E P Dutton
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1993-08-01
X weight: 22 oz

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