Confessions of the Fox

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Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox (2019, Atlantic Books, Limited)

English language

Published Nov. 28, 2019 by Atlantic Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-78649-625-6
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5 stars (1 review)

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.

Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all.

Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.

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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 …

Subjects

  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general