Mr. Fox
A Novel
Description
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding. The fairy tales that don't get more complicated. In this book, 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 sifferently. Meanwhile, Daphne becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair and finds her way into Mary and Mr. Fox's game. And so Mr. Fox is offered a choice: Will it be 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?
About this Author
HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, along with six novels, including Gingerbread and Boy, Snow, Bird, which was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Reviews
"Oyeyemi's writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh. . . . A shimmering landscape pulsing with life." --Aimee Bender, The New York Times Book Review
"Mr. Fox should convince a whole new audience that Oyeyemi is the real thing." --The Globe and Mail
"A playfully comic, killingly serious, frequently ferocious literary romp." --Winnipeg Free Press
"Dazzling." --The Washington Post
"Intensely vibrant, and Oyeyemi's characters almost dance on their pages in celebration of the limitless powers of the mind. An outstanding addition to an impressive body of work, this is Oyeyemi's best, most beautiful novel yet." --The Independent on Sunday (U.K.)
"Cheeky and imaginative." --The New Yorker
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