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Oates depicts a gang of five adolescent girls growing up amidst violence and frustration in upstate New York during the 1950s.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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$21. F Oates, one of America's most distinguished and prolific writers, has triumphed again with this deftly crafted, highly imaginative novel about a girl gang called Foxfire and its leader, Legs Sadovsky. Legs is many things: a female Robin Hood, a Marxist revolutionary, a highly intelligent naif, an incredibly bold, indestructible heroine. Legs, who is wise beyond her years, dominates Foxfire with her superiority. But Legs is not a writer; that responsibility she delegates to Maddy Wirtz, who becomes the official chronicler of Foxfire's history. Later in life, in search of elusive truth, Maddy returns to her notebooks and relives her Foxfire days of the 1950s, a decade she and her female contemporaries (of all ages) experienced through violence, fear, and oppression. The forces that gave rise to Foxfire and the bonds that kept it together raise many interesting questions about gender, social status, and sexuality. As in any Oates novel, these multiple themes intertwine to create a richly textured piece. Highly recommended.
- Janet Wilson Reit, Univ. of Vermont Lib., Burlington
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Janet Wilson Reit, Univ. of Vermont Lib., Burlington
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Never never tell, Maddy-Monkey, they warned me, it's Death if you tell any of Them but now after so many years I am going to tell, for who's to stop me? Read the first page
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Never never tell, Maddy-Monkey, they warned me, it's Death if you tell any of Them but now after so many years I am going to tell, for who's to stop me? Read the first page
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This review is from: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Hardcover)
Extremely pleased with the purchase. Arrived on time, in excellent condition at an awesome price. Will definitely being purchasing from again in the future. I recommend this to everyone!
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passionate account of a girl gang,
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This review is from: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Paperback)
Written in a passionate rush of often purply prose, "Foxfire" is the story of a girl gang which performed feminist acts before feminism was as taken for granted as it is now. Led by the charismatic and enigmatic Legs Savodsky, the group moves from vandalism and physical acts of aggression to kidnapping, this comes at the very end and is, as you might suspect, the end of the gang as well. Chronicled by the author's stand-in Maddy Wirtz, a former "good girl" who is going against (she tells us) the long ago warning not to tell anyone about Foxfire's affairs. But, as she says, who is around to stop her. Great book - and also 1996 movie worth searching out.
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FOXFIRE IN MY HEART.,
By Ellen Albertsdóttir (Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Paperback)
I fell in love with the writing of Joyce Carol Oates last year, when I read Blonde. It's the best book I've ever read. Or is it? After reading FOXFIRE, I'm not sure. I've read 7 books of Oates, FOXFIRE is together with Blonde and Because it is bitter and because it is my heart, one of the best. FOXFIRE affected me. I could find sentences that really spoke to me, the story itself spoke to me as well. I found paragraphs that I really wanted to quote, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW IT REALLY IS! It's a wonderful story that is beautiful written, and it will stay with you. I wonder what happened to them, these characters are real to me. Maddy-Monkey with her beautiful Underwood and Legs Sadovsky, running, almost flying!, over the roof tops. Like the hero she is, like the hero we remember. FOXFIRE IS MY HEART.
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