“Reading Fox is like being spellbound by a hypnotist who may not wish you well, who leads you, with a deceptively gentle hand, toward that dark forest you fear. Joyce Carol Oates has created a sinister fable all the more chilling for persuading its readers to collude in the unthinkable. Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof that Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn
“What a gift this book is! As beautifully written and brilliantly constructed as this story is, as wonderful as the mystery is, Fox’s power is in the many depths of character Joyce Carol Oates explores and how she captures the nuances of the choices people make. I found it mesmerizing front to back—another master class from one of America’s greatest writers.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly
“I just finished an extraordinary novel and am still in its spell. It’s Fox by Joyce Carol Oates, her first ‘whodunit’ or mystery thriller, and it’s unlike any other mystery I’ve read. It’s so fully imagined, in the way that only Oates can do, powerful and sinister and beautifully written in her mesmerizing prose. Nobody else writes like the great Joyce Carol Oates. It’s Rremarkable.”—New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder
“I can’t remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive that yet bears so much realism and nuance and depth. Oates is a genius in the truest sense of the word—fearing nothing, including radical reinvention—and Fox is, to my mind, her most compelling book in her remarkable career.”—Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of I Have Some Questions For You
“[Oates] is at her best here: insightful, unrelenting, and devastating.”—Library Journal, starred review
“Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative.”—Booklist, starred review
“A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written (and with a Nabokovian in-joke that joins Lolita to [Oates’s] tale), with an expertly constructed surprise ending . . . [a] moody, often shocking mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
