Horrifically gripping
5 stars I honestly confess that at a few points whilst reading Fox I nearly walked away. This is dark and horrifically deviant stuff made even more real by Joyce Carol Oates's masterful ability to deep dive into the mind and motivations with such clarity as to feel authentic. No blushes spared. We know these characters inside out whether we want to or not. That applies to a predatory paedophile, his victims and those around him in tight and loose orbits. High praise that this microscopic treatment was equally applied to Princess Di, a dog of the most precocious nature, and her rather naively trusting human, the headmistress of the Langhorne Academy, P. Cady. A frolicking, highly animated humorous duo, where Di is all instinctive action, P. Cady is gobsmackingly obtuse. Bless her. Of the whole book, these were my favourite characters as they provided calm breathing space for the revelations to come. This book has the distinction of being as repellent as it is magnetic. When the na...
