{"product_id":"mr-fox-isbn-9781594486180","title":"Mr. Fox","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Young British Novelists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning young writer o\u003cb\u003ef \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeaces\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFairy-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extraordinarily gifted Helen Oyeyemi has written a love story like no other.  \u003ci\u003eMr. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e 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. “Oyeyemi’s writing is gorgeous and resonant and fresh . . . a shimmering landscape pulsating with life.”—Aimee Bender, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Oyeyemi has an eye for the gently perverse, the odd detail that turns the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Dazzling.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Cheeky and imaginative.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Startling, beautiful . . . [Mr. Fox] should not be ignored.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMr. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully original novel, full of images and turns of phrase so arresting, so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow with them. Helen Oyeyemi has given us a work of playful charm and serious narrative pleasure.”—Sarah Waters, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A sly, tender, and elegant novel, graced with a magical charm that makes this novel’s wisdom about love and loss all the more captivating to read. \u003ci\u003eMr. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel for those who love stories and who believe in their singular power to alter and heal our fragile souls.\"--Dinaw Mengestu, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow to Read the Air\u003c\/i\u003eHelen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eWhite Is for Witching\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, \u003ci\u003eMr. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a 2012 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, and \u003ci\u003eBoy, Snow, Bird\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2013, she was named one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Young British Novelists. She lives in Prague.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299748565221,"sku":"NP9781594486180","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594486180.jpg?v=1767733037","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/mr-fox-isbn-9781594486180","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}