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The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five senior high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, electricity, and vengeance on a world that seems designed to denigrate and destroy them. Foxfire is Joyce Carol Oates’s best and most unsparing book yet—an always engrossing, often surprising evocation of feminine rage, gallantry, and grit. Here is the secret background of a sisterhood of blood vessels, a haven from an environment of male oppressors, designated with a liberating fury that burns too hot to last. Above all, it's the story of Lower limbs Sadovsky, with her trim, on-the-edge, icy beauty, whose nerve, muscle, hate, and injure make her the spark of Foxfire, its guiding heart, its burning main. At once brutal and lyrical, this is a careening joyride of a novel—recharged with outlaw energy and lit by powerful emotion. Amid moments of assault and vengeance lies this book’s very best electricity: the beautiful, astonishing rendering of the bonds that web page link the Foxfire young ladies along. Foxfire reaffirms Joyce Carol Oates’s place at the very summit of American writing.
