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ISBN10: 0593978099
ISBN13: 9780593978092
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 672
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593978092
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 672
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An enthralling (Los Angeles Times) and remarkably engrossing (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by legendary author Joyce Carol Oates Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written.--Gillian Flynn
I found it mesmerizing front to back.--Michael Connelly
I can't remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive.--Rebecca Makkai
An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I've read.--Joseph Finder
Tom Ripley, eat your heart out.--NPR
A classic psychological suspense.--People
A dark, daring plunge into literary suspense . . . Oates dissects the predator-prey dynamic with merciless precision.--The Seattle Times
LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A HARPER'S BAZAAR AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
I can't remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive.--Rebecca Makkai
An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I've read.--Joseph Finder
Tom Ripley, eat your heart out.--NPR
A classic psychological suspense.--People
A dark, daring plunge into literary suspense . . . Oates dissects the predator-prey dynamic with merciless precision.--The Seattle Times
LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A HARPER'S BAZAAR AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
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