Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452272316)

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.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN-10: 0452272319
ISBN-13: 9780452272316
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1994
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.32w x 0.77d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70078 / Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/18/1994