- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: New American Library; Reprint edition (25 Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452272319
- ISBN-13: 978-0452272316
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 548,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Brilliant ... Foxfire burns brightly ... exhilarating."
-- New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful, beautiful, a vivid novel."
-- Washington Post
"Profound ... a riveting whirlwind of a novel."
-- Los Angeles Times
-- New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful, beautiful, a vivid novel."
-- Washington Post
"Profound ... a riveting whirlwind of a novel."
-- Los Angeles Times
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This captures your imagination from the very first page,Joyce Carol Oates has you visualising every character and cheering them on from beginning to end.The story follows the exploits of four young girls who are thrown together by a mythical seventeen year old drifter who enters their town and their lives.The girls form a gang and promise to protect and look out for each other.Legs the drifter is the strongest of the gang and keeps everybody together in mind and body.The girls grow stronger together and believe they are indestructable till something happens to test the bond thay all have.This book is far better than the film and a truly incredible read .
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
WOW. WAY different than the film version.
13 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
I knew that the film (Starring Angelina Jolie and Jenny Shimizu... yum!) version was based LOOSELY on this book - but i didn't realize HOW loosely! The book is 1,000,000 times better than the movie. The characters are more real (not 5 very attractive girls being a little "naughty"), the acts of rebellion more extreme, the setting (small blue collar town in New York State, 1950's) more appropriate... and it's just all more compelling. The novel really helps you get into the mindset of the sisterhood of the gang - and is more racey. Everything was toned down for the film, and loses a lot of the intensity.
Even if you didn't like the film - you should check out this book. It exhibits some female rebellion in a time/place where women could hardly expect the respect that FOXFIRE demands.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Foxfire Forever!
14 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
Oates' novel begins with a furious pace and never lets up. The prose mirrors the feeling and the action of the novel -- fast-paced, raw and vibrant. Legs Sadovsky is one of the most memorable characters I have encountered in a long time -- a complex character that needs another book! I read this book in one sitting because I just couldn't stop reading. I had to find our what happened to Foxfire and Legs and why these girls ended up separating. The way Oates develops the chracterization of the gang, as if it were a character itself, is fantastic. We watch the gang go from petty vandalism to violence and prostitution, and the whole way we can understand why they have made the choices they do. I felt for these characters and never once thought they went too far, even their final act which seals their fate.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
loved it
27 July 2004
Format:Paperback
When I read Foxfire four years ago, I became a Joyce Carol Oates fanatic. That didn't change when I read it again just recently. Its appeal is the girl gang idea- about the power struggles that each of the five girls as they move through adolescence. Legs Sadowsky is a troubled young girl who brings four others together in ways they never thought possible. Oates has a marvelous way with words, in which you are horrified yet at the same time fascinated by all that happens. Legs makes for a marvelous, beautiful character in that way. The girls are brutal to one another, and harsh to an outside world, which has, in a way, rejected them. In the end, the girls have to make decisions about growing up that affect each other and, inevitably, the outside world. Its a sexy, sad, and thought-provoking book that I couldn't put down.
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