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Penguin
October 2011
On Sale: September 29, 2011
Featuring: Mr. Fox; Mary
141 pages
ISBN: 159448807X
EAN: 9781594488078
Kindle: B0054TVO7U
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
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 into nine variations, exploding and teasing
conventions of genre and romance, and each iteration
explores the fears that come with accepting a lifelong bond. 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? The
extraordinarily gifted Helen Oyeyemi has written a love
story like no other. Mr. Fox is a magical book, endlessly
inventive, as witty and charming as it is profound in its
truths about how we learn to be with one another.
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