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Mr Fox

Mr Fox

by HelenOyeyemi (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $3.45
Synopsis

It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home - until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. You're a villain, she tells him. `A serial killer . . . can you grasp that?

Mr Fox has a predilection for murdering his heroines. Mary is determined to change his ways. And so she challenges him to join her in stories of their own devising, and the result is an exploration of love like no other.

It isn't long before Mrs Daphne Fox becomes suspicious, and St John is offered a choice: a life with the girl of his dreams, or a life with an all-too-real woman who delights him more than he cares to admit. Can there be a happy ending this time?

Mr Fox is a magical book, as witty as it is profound in its truths about how we learn to be with one another.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Jun 2011
ISBN 10: 0330536265
ISBN 13: 9780330536264

Media Reviews
Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh . . . a shimmering landscape pulsating with life. --Aimee Bender, The New York Times Book Review Oyeyemi has an eye for the gently perverse, the odd detail that turns the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange. -- The Boston Globe Dazzling. -- The Washington Post Cheeky and imaginative. -- The New Yorker Startling, beautiful . . . [Mr. Fox] should not be ignored. -- Chicago Sun Times Mr. Fox is a wonderfully original novel, full of images and turns of phrase so arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has given us a work of playful charm and serious narrative pleasure. --Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger A sly, tender, and elegant novel, graced with a magical charm that makes this novel's wisdom about love and loss all the more captivating to read. Mr. Fox is a novel for those who love stories and who believe in their singular power to alter and heal our fragile souls. --Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air
Author Bio
Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is the author of The Icarus Girl, The Opposite House, and, most recently, White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award.