Foxfire
  • Published:
    Aug-1993 (Hardcover)
    Aug-1994 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    328
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates's strongest and most unsparing novel yet -- an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. 

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.

Here is the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of male oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it is the story of Legs Sadovsky, with her lean, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and hurt make her the spark of Foxfire: its guiding spirit, its burning core.

At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novel -- charged with outlaw energy and lit by intense emotion. Amid scenes of violence and vengeance lies this novel's greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the Foxfire girls together. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates's place at the very summit of American writing.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Sep-1994
    • Plume
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452272319
    • ISBN13: 9780452272316
    • First Edition
    • Aug-1993
    • Dutton
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0525936327
    • ISBN13: 9780525936329
    •  
    • Aug-1994
    • San Val
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 141763622X
    • ISBN13: 9781417636228
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jun-2009
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 059318274X
    • ISBN13: 9780593182741
    •  
    • Feb-2018
    • Saga Egmont
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-1994
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0453008968
    • ISBN13: 9780453008969
    •  
    • Dec-2008
    • HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jun-2009
    • Penguin Audio
    • audible.com (abridged)
    •  
    • Oct-2016
    • Lindhardt og Ringhof
    • Audible



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