Fox or by Mary-in which the roles of Lover/Murderer and Beloved/Victim go through a host of variations which bring to mind bits and pieces (as in body parts, pun intended) of various classic tales of misogyny. Soon stories are appearing-it is never quite clear whether composed by Mr. Fox’s treatment of women and challenges him, very vaguely, to a contest. He is living in 1930s New York with his younger wife Daphne, whom he tends to neglect while creating his fiction-a neglect akin to adultery since he is visited with increasing frequency by his imaginary but alluring muse Mary. Foxes here) is a novelist who kills off his heroines. Fox of the title (and there are plenty of other Mr. Postmodernist, meta-fictional riffs on classic tales, especially fairy tales, in which women die violently in the name of love, from Nigerian/British wunderkind Oyeyemi ( The Icarus Girl, 2005, etc.).
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