El señor Fox

Francis Fox is a charming English teacher who has just arrived at the idyllic and exclusive Langhorne Academy. Able to win almost everyone over with his charisma, Professor Fox also sparks curiosity regarding his enigmatic origins. When two siblings discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond and unidentified body parts scattered in the nearby woods, the entire community begins to ask unsettling questions about his true identity. A breakneck tale of crime and complicity, revenge and justice, in which Oates illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche and raises profound moral questions about the responses evil demands. Francis Fox—a character as magnetically diabolical as Highsmith’s Tom Ripley or Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert—bewitches and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until he finally meets someone he cannot deceive. Written in Oates’s signature intimate and sweeping style, *Mr. Fox* is a triumph of literary craftsmanship and artistry—a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is mysterious.