Mr. Fox

Helen Oyeyemi

eBook - 2011

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of Granta’s Best Young British NovelistsFrom the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.Mary challenges Mr. Fox to join her in stories of their own devising; and in different times and places, the two of... them seek each other, find each other, thwart each other, and try to stay together, even when the roles they inhabit seem to forbid it. Their adventures twist the fairy tale...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Helen Oyeyemi
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size220 MB
ISBN9781101547861
Release Date9/29/2011
Kindle Book
ASINB0054TVO7U
Release Date9/29/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101547861
Release Date9/29/2011