Mr. Fox

by Helen Oyeyemi

Paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2011 by Riverhead Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-59448-807-8
OCLC Number:: 706017183

(7 reviews)

It’s a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn’t seen her in six years. He’s unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn’t exist. He’s infatuated with her. But he also made her up. “You’re a villain,” she tells him. ‘A serial killer . . . can you grasp that?” Will Mr Fox meet his muse’s challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love? What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden change in her husband? Can there be a happy ending – this time?

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4 stars

I was cleaning a carpet at work today listening to Lana Del Ray when I realized that Mr. Fox reminds me so much of the men in Del Ray's music except with 100% more character and flesh and. ... This was a super seductive and charming and ethereal book. I gave up trying to sort out exactly which was 'real' and which was fiction half way through (something I often struggle with) and my experience of the story went up a lot after that ... this is such a modern day fairytale. Oyeyemi is so so good at blending time and all signifiers of such things ... so that you feel like your drifting in and out of different eras in a single passage. Super eager to read Boy Snow Bird by her next.