Mr. Fox

by Helen Oyeyemi

277 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2011 by Picador.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-53626-4

(7 reviews)

Fairy-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.

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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.