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Confessions of the Fox

By (author) Jordy Rosenberg
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Books, London, United Kingdom
Published: 5th Jul 2018
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm
ISBN-10: 1786496232
ISBN-13: 9781786496232
Barcode No: 9781786496232
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Synopsis
Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... ...Or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison and the dissection chambers of the Royal College, in a bawdy collision of a novel about gender, love, and liberation.

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Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie Nelson, Daphne du Maurier and Daniel Defoe collaborated. * Sarah Perry, author of 'The Essex Serpent' * Jordy Rosenberg is a total original - part scamp, part genius - who has written a rollicking page-turner of a first novel. Hang on for the ride. * Maggie Nelson, author of 'The Argonauts' * An extraordinary and brilliant work... At once a queer love story, a history of horrors, and a thrilling page-turner, Confessions of the Fox is a vitally important work of our time. * China Mieville, author of 'The City and the City' * Hot damn! Jordy Rosenberg is one of the finest new talents I've seen in many years, and Confessions of the Fox is a startlingly good debut novel. The book is rich with fact and well-invented fiction, bubbling with ideas that surprise and satisfy. * Victor LaValle, author of 'The Changeling' * An astonishing, bawdy, dazzling triumph of a book. * Kelly Link, author of 'Get in Trouble' * A gender-bending, high-octane thrill from beginning to end... I couldn't put it down * Lidia Yuknavitch, author of 'Book of Joan' * This novel is fantastically engaged with the dark, the smelly, the wild and the cool. And it's such an obsessive read, sad it was over, I couldn't stop wanting to go there." * Eileen Myles, author of 'Chelsea Girls' * I didn't know one book could do so many things. It's an intellectual thrill-ride whose relentless wit made me shout with delight, a queer historical romance that speaks directly to our contemporary moment, and it is the sexiest book I've read in a long, long time. It is everything I want in a novel and maybe out of life itself. A magnificent debut. * Melissa Febos, author of 'Whip Smart' *