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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Joyce Carol Oates

Ebook | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	(first published August 13th 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Feminism. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Contemporary

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The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world they never made - a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.

Foxfire is Joyce Carol Oates' strongest and most unsparing novel yet...an often engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. Here, then, are the Foxfire chronicles - the secret history of a sisterhood of blood, a haven from a world of lechers and oppressors, marked by a liberating fury that burns too hot to last.

It is the story of Maddy Monkey, who writes it...of Goldie, whose womanly body masks a fierce, explosive temper...of Lana, with her Marilyn Monroe hair and packs of Chesterfields...of timid Rita, whose humiliation leads to the first act of Foxfire revenge. 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.

The story moves over the years from the first eruption of adolescent anger at sexual abuse to a shared life financed by luring predatory men into traps baited with sex. But then the gang's very success leads to disaster - as Foxfire makes a last tragic stand against a society intent on swallowing it up. Yet amid scenes of violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and vengeance lies this novel's greatest power: the exquisite, astonishing rendering of the bonds that link the girls of Foxfire together - especially that between Maddy, the teller ofthe tale, and Legs, whose quintessential strength and bedrock bravery make her one of the most vivid and vital heroines in modern fiction.

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Original Title:	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
ISBN:	0330330772 (ISBN13: 9780330330770)
Setting:	Hammond, New York,1953

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There is no faulting the flow of Oates' prose. Having read Foxfire, I would even venture to say that I agree that she is a tour de force in contemporary fiction, but the star rating, as laid out by Goodreads, is all about how much I LIKE or don't LIKE a book. I really can't say I like this book. There are elements that I like. I like the character of Rita; I like the way Oates develops the foxfire motif, and I would even go as far as to say that certain passages would translate perfectly to a

Was torn between giving this a 3 or a 4... Decided to go with the 4, as it's probably better than this God awful Portuguese translation.

Gaypede Book Club Pick FebruaryI have had a bit of time to think after hearing opinions at book club, and sadly I am still the odd man out. Within the first few pages I knew that the writing style wasn't for me. Those who know me know I am pretty Type A, and my brain likes things nice, neat, and logical. There are a few writers who can still engage me when they are jumping all over the place as long as I can see why. This for some reason was not one of those books. Another large problem that I

Foxfire is an all out book of girl empowerment and feminism. Taken place in the 50s and 60s shortly after the 2nd World War. This book is written through the perspective of Maddy, who is 15 at the time the story is told and you later find out is an astronomers assistant reliving the days, and often switches points of view. It took place a lower class setting next to an upper class society. Much like the views of a city on a hill. Foxfire is a gang in the lower class society, but the first all

Foxfire is a book that read itself. At first, I found the choppy stream-of-consciousness style hard to deal with. I had to re-read the first few pages several times. But after the first third, or so, I began to get a feel for the odd prose style. The run-on sentences, capital letters, and lack of punctuation dragged my eye across the page and made the book very difficult to put down. I read most of the last two hundred pages in a single sitting and cant remember the last time I finished a book

Foxfire never says die.I have a Tattoo, based from this Book and the Movie that followed,...that starred Angelina Jolie. ;)It's the story of a group of misfit girls, who fight back. Yes, they are a girl gang, but they aren't the offshoot of a boy gang. They aren't the girls of some local hoods. They are the ones running the show.You are my Heart, Joyce. Foxfire Forever.

I love this book so much that I find it difficult to write about it without gushing. I mean, there is the obvious reason why, which is that it's about a girl gang that targets predatory men and boys - and of course, horrible pet shops - with a sense of prefeminist vengeance. Feminist vigilantism appeals to me on this base, primal level, even if I have problems with violence in general. The book said a lot about the time and place in which everything took place. The sharp class divides, the