Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 08/01/1994
ISBN: 9780452272316
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.32w x 0.77d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/18/1994

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