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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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ISBN 10
0525936327
ISBN 13
9780525936329
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New York:: Dutton,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Good in good dust jacket (shelfwear to edges, signs of having been read.). First printing. Novel set in a blue-collar town in upstate New York in the 1950s. 328 pp.

Synopsis

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
Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding
Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Good in good dust jacket (shelfwear to edges, signs of having been read.)
Jacket Condition
good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0525936327
ISBN 13
9780525936329
Publisher
Dutton,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
(1993.)
Keywords
upstate new york setting,
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Women Authors;

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