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Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang
  

Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang (Turtleback)

de Joyce Carol Oates (Author) "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..." En savoir plus
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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent Product and Service, Oct. 19 2009
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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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4.0étoiles sur 5 passionate account of a girl gang, Jui 1 2004
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This review is from: Foxfire (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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5.0étoiles sur 5 FOXFIRE IN MY HEART., Aoû 27 2003
This review is from: Foxfire (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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1.0étoiles sur 5 Overrated -- needed some serious editing
If anyone other than Joyce Carol Oates had written this novel it NEVER would have gotten published. I realize Joyce Carol Oates is a "genuis" and therefore can do no... Read more
Publié le Aoû 17 2003

4.0étoiles sur 5 Finished it in one sitting
This book is fun to read. The story is fast paced and I have never been so addicted to any character as I was to Legs. Read more
Publié le Juil 22 2003 par Christie

5.0étoiles sur 5 Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
First of all, I absolutely loved the book. It was one that once I picked it up it was hard to quit reading. There is constantly some type of action, and never a dull moment. Read more
Publié le Jui 29 2003 par b_potato

1.0étoiles sur 5 not so good
I had to read this book as a research project for an english project (im in 11th grade). I was very disturbed and sort of shaken up by how descriptive everything was. Read more
Publié le Jui 1 2003 par Rachael

1.0étoiles sur 5 Glad I'm not the only one
Okay, so Ms. Oates has a lovely way of describing some things. I read a few passages aloud to a friend of mine. Read more
Publié le Mars 24 2003

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Best I've Read
I've probably read seven or eight Joyce Carol Oates books, and this is easily my favourite - but, that said, Oates is an almost ridiculously prolific writer, often releasing two... Read more
Publié le Janv. 24 2003 par me-jane

5.0étoiles sur 5 amazing work
Well, this review comes four years after i read Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang in college, and i have to say that i have never read anything so compelling and carismatic... Read more
Publié le Janv. 23 2003 par Cindy

1.0étoiles sur 5 Couldn't finish it.
This book started out bad, and never got any better. I couldn't finish it because it could not keep my attention. Read more
Publié le Nov. 8 2002 par Melanie Pilner

4.0étoiles sur 5 WOW. WAY different than the film version.
I knew that the film (Starring Angelina Jolie and Jenny Shimizu... yum!) version was based LOOSELY on this book - but i didn't realize HOW loosely! Read more
Publié le Mai 13 2002 par Miss D. AwesomePants

3.0étoiles sur 5 A Bad-Tasting Book
I think every young woman should read Foxfire. It's a literary fantasy for any girl who's been raised in poverty, sexually abused, or made to feel like a lesser person, an idiot,... Read more
Publié le Sep 18 2001 par Cape

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