{"product_id":"fox-by-joyce-carol-oates","title":"Fox By Joyce Carol Oates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “enthralling” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) and “remarkably engrossing” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written.”—Gillian Flynn\u003cbr\u003e“I found it mesmerizing front to back.”—Michael Connelly\u003cbr\u003e“I can’t remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive.”—Rebecca Makkai\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I’ve read.”—Joseph Finder\u003cbr\u003e“Tom Ripley, eat your heart out.”—NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A classic psychological suspense.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A dark, daring plunge into literary suspense . . . Oates dissects the predator-prey dynamic with merciless precision.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eECONOMIST\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Vulture, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, AV Club,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAARP\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47513117786332,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47513117819100,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/2_15ffe97e-23c8-4592-97f2-ae834fc9da18.png?v=1769783432","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/fox-by-joyce-carol-oates","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}