EAN: 9780593979440

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times The Boston Globe Seattle Times Vulture Esquire Publishers Weekly Lit Hub AV Club AARP 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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