{"product_id":"the-bay-of-foxes-isbn-9780143121015","title":"The Bay of Foxes","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences. Sheila Kohler's memoir \u003ci\u003eOnce We Were Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e is now available.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1978, Dawit, a young, beautiful, and educated Ethiopian refugee, roams the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author M., who at sixty is at the height of her fame. Seduced by Dawit's grace and his moving story, M. invites him to live with her. He makes himself indispensable, or so he thinks. When M. brings him to her Sardinian villa, beside the Bay of Foxes, Dawit finds love and temptation—and perfects the art of deception.“Shelia Kohler's \u003ci\u003eThe Bay Of Foxes\u003c\/i\u003e is a sexy subtle psychological thriller. With delicate and terrifying grace Kohler illuminates the complex hidden lives of her characters, whose needs and desires transgress the bounds of the familiar and comfortable. This seductive and wonderfully unexpected tale confirms Sheila Kohler's place as a master of the novel.”—\u003cb\u003eA. M. Homes, author of \u003ci\u003eMay We Be Forgiven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her work is both spare and sensuous – understated and fraught with tension…involving the reader intensely in the narrative.”—\u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates, author of \u003ci\u003eThem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Patricia Highsmith meets Nadine Gordimer in this mesmerizing tale of sex, longing and murder.”—\u003cb\u003eJonathan Santlofer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is a territory—fictional and psychological—that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. . . . I am full of admiration.”—\u003cb\u003eJ. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her stories are elegant, smooth, and gorgeously sensual, belying the tension that crackles beneath. Long after I’ve finished reading one of her stories, the image continues to pulse.”—\u003cb\u003eAmy Tan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kohler, a master of psychological intrigue, begins with an encounter in a Parisian café between the famous, sixtyish M. and a young, impoverished refugee named Dawit. The pair decamps to Sardinia’s Bay of Foxes and into a sinister affair.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this elegant, sensuous, literary thriller, set in the poshest enclaves of Paris, Sardinia, and Rome... an indelibly written \u003ci\u003ehommage\u003c\/i\u003e to the art of Miss Highsmith and the talents of Mr. Ripley. This is a book to savor on every level.\"—\u003cb\u003eJoan Schenkar, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She later lived in Paris for fifteen years, where she married, completed her undergraduate degree in Literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in Psychology at the Institut Catholique. She moved to the U.S. in 1981 and earned an MFA in Writing at Columbia. She currently teaches at Princeton University. \u003ci\u003eBecoming Jane Eyre \u003c\/i\u003e is her 10th book. Her work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, O Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and included in the Best American Short Stories. She has twice won an O’Henry Prize, as well as an Open Fiction Award, a Willa Cather Prize, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize. Her novel \u003ci\u003eCracks\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for an Impac Award, and has been made into a feature film to be distributed by IFC. She has been published in 8 countries.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304527319269,"sku":"NP9780143121015","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143121015.jpg?v=1767738279","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-bay-of-foxes-isbn-9780143121015","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}