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Fox

Auteur(s): Joyce Carol Oates
Narrateur(s): Max Meyers, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kirsten Potter, Fred Berman, Matt Godfrey, Gail Shalan, Rebecca Lowman, Rachel L. Jacobs, Eunice Wong, Ina Barrón
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 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

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. Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Psychologique Récits initiatiques Effrayant Étudiant
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I’m not going to comment on the actual novel. Yes, it is about a pedophile, but not, that’s not why I think it’s a 3-star book. As difficult a topic as it is, this is something that’s very real and very common and needs to be discussed out in the open. Totally understandable if many people don’t want to read it, but that doesn’t make it a bad book. I think there are a lot of structural problems—flat characters, way too lengthy and repetitive, high improbable plot.

Additionally, what is happening to audiobook production? I’ve been listening to audiobooks for almost 20 years. In recent years, more money than ever has been invested into the format as the popularity of the audiobook has soared. I still want to feel like I’m reading a book, or at least being read to. All of the multi-person casting, highly performative, melodramatic and frankly patronising. This book in particular, the narrators do a lot of heavy handed interpretation of the text. If I wanted a radio drama I’d get a radio drama; in an audiobook, I just want a clean, moderately neutral reading of the text, where the narrator melts away and you can just absorb the material.

Melodramatic narration, structural issues

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Once again I wish there were warnings about the subject matter. Pedophilia isn’t riveting it’s disgusting. One of the more tedious books I struggled to get through but skipped through much, especially the predatory child abuse. While the writing might be lauded this was not time well spent.

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