FOX

A mesmerizing story of mystery and psychological suspense, FOX follows the shocking disappearance of a beloved, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school and all the lives he touched.

A mesmerizing novel of mystery and psychological suspense, Joyce Carol Oates's Fox follows the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school, a character as magnetically diabolical as Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Nabokov's Humbert. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche, while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil deserves. Written in Oates's trademark intimate, propulsive style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel on the scale of Oates's masterpieces Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Prix Femina, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. "It's hard to think of another writer," says The New York Times, "with as fecund and protean an imagination as [Oates], who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers."