Leaving_Marx reviewed Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
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5 stars
This was an awesome read, Heard about it from a talk hosted by Red May Seattle this year which has a bunch of people offering glowing reviews of this book. One of them said it was like if Marx's Capital Vol. 1 was written today into a story about austerity in the academy and a historical action-thriller or something.
Definitely a fun read, started off hating the footnotes but grew to love them. Took me until the second part to feel invested in the characters but after that I plowed through the book.
If you're looking for a historical drama about underworld queers, trans thief, sex workers, and the struggles against the establishment of the police in victorian England than this is a book for you.
lulz, but seriously a fun concept and amazing references to feminist, marxist, and post-colonial literature throughout. I even appreciated the consistent reveries to the …
This was an awesome read, Heard about it from a talk hosted by Red May Seattle this year which has a bunch of people offering glowing reviews of this book. One of them said it was like if Marx's Capital Vol. 1 was written today into a story about austerity in the academy and a historical action-thriller or something.
Definitely a fun read, started off hating the footnotes but grew to love them. Took me until the second part to feel invested in the characters but after that I plowed through the book.
If you're looking for a historical drama about underworld queers, trans thief, sex workers, and the struggles against the establishment of the police in victorian England than this is a book for you.
lulz, but seriously a fun concept and amazing references to feminist, marxist, and post-colonial literature throughout. I even appreciated the consistent reveries to the erotic holiness of piss. 5/5