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Jim is a self-employed web developer living in Cardiff. Successful professionally, the future also looks rosy for his personal life, having recently proposed to his girlfriend, Ffion. However, when the couple decide to celebrate their engagement with his much-loved dad, Callum, Jim's world is tilted on its axis.\n\n\nJim is convinced he spotted his dad staring at him - just for a split second - with a look of pure hatred. Did he imagine it? However, when a series of bizarre and catastrophic events strike Jim's life in quick succession, he starts to wonder if the look he received from his father could mean something.\n\n\nEventually, Callum makes a confession that will lead to the total collapse of Jim's life as he knows it...

Jim is a self-employed web developer living in Cardiff. Successful professionally, the future also looks rosy for his personal life, having recently proposed to his girlfriend, Ffion. However, when the couple decide to celebrate their engagement with his much-loved dad, Callum, Jim's world is tilted on its axis.\n\n\nJim is convinced he spotted his dad staring at him - just for a split second - with a look of pure hatred. Did he imagine it? However, when a series of bizarre and catastrophic events strike Jim's life in quick succession, he starts to wonder if the look he received from his father could mean something.\n\n\nEventually, Callum makes a confession that will lead to the total collapse of Jim's life as he knows it...

‘Impressive and unsettling'\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n 'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n 'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies' \n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n 'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n \n A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.\n\n\n \n 'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ \n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n 'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY\n\n\n 'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI\n\n\n \n 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing'\n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’\n SEATTLE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’\n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n ‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’\n KIRKUS REVIEWS\n \n\n\n ...

Chi è davvero Francis Harlan Fox? Quando arriva alla Langhorne Academy, prestigiosa scuola privata immersa in un paesaggio idilliaco, Francis Fox conquista tutti: studenti, genitori, colleghi. Professore di inglese brillante, attento, sensibile e carismatico, sembra incarnare l’idea stessa dell’insegnante ideale. Eppure, dietro il fascino e l’intelligenza affilata, qualcosa resta inafferrabile: il suo passato è nebuloso, la sua storia personale piena di zone d’ombra. La sua scomparsa, il ritrovamento della sua auto semi-affondata in uno stagno e di resti umani nei boschi vicini causa paura e scalpore nella piccola comunità. L’indagine che segue non si limita a ricostruire una sparizione e una possibile morte: costringe tutti a interrogarsi su chi fosse davvero Francis Fox, su ciò che ha nascosto e su quanto profondamente abbia manipolato chi gli stava intorno.

From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, seven feverishly unsettling works of suspense..\n\nA precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate. A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as her own sense of self deteriorates. A recent widow grieves inside her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into a great flying predator - unerring and pitiless in the hunt.\n\nThese meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within.\n\nReviews for Joyce Carol Oates:\n\n'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian \n'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express \n'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review \n'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times \n'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

‘Chilling’ \n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n ‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’\n NPR\n \n\n\n ‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n \n Who is Francis Fox? \n \n\n\n A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boarding school. Francis Fox quickly beguiles many of his students, their parents and his colleagues, while leaving others in the small town wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic.\n\n\n When Fox disappears and parts of an unidentified body are discovered in nearby woods, the community begins to ask disturbing questions about the charming, mercurial teacher, and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic tale of crime, complicity and revenge, Fox is an unsettling portrait of a cunning predator, which illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche.\n\n\n \n ‘Breathless and febrile … an utterly mesmeric account of how one man’s crimes can affect an entire community’\n GUARDIAN\n \n\n\n \n ‘Impressive and unsettling’\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n \n ‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n ‘Mesmerising … another masterclass from one of America's greatest writers’ MICHAEL CONNELLY, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, seven feverishly unsettling works of suspense..\n\nA precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate. A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as her own sense of self deteriorates. A recent widow grieves inside her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into a great flying predator - unerring and pitiless in the hunt.\n\nThese meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within.\n\nReviews for Joyce Carol Oates:\n\n'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian \n'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express \n'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review \n'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times \n'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

Chi è davvero Francis Harlan Fox? Quando arriva alla Langhorne Academy, prestigiosa scuola privata immersa in un paesaggio idilliaco, Francis Fox conquista tutti: studenti, genitori, colleghi. Professore di inglese brillante, attento, sensibile e carismatico, sembra incarnare l’idea stessa dell’insegnante ideale. Eppure, dietro il fascino e l’intelligenza affilata, qualcosa resta inafferrabile: il suo passato è nebuloso, la sua storia personale piena di zone d’ombra. La sua scomparsa, il ritrovamento della sua auto semi-affondata in uno stagno e di resti umani nei boschi vicini causa paura e scalpore nella piccola comunità. L’indagine che segue non si limita a ricostruire una sparizione e una possibile morte: costringe tutti a interrogarsi su chi fosse davvero Francis Fox, su ciò che ha nascosto e su quanto profondamente abbia manipolato chi gli stava intorno.

‘Chilling’ \n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n ‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’\n NPR\n \n\n\n ‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n \n Who is Francis Fox? \n \n\n\n A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boarding school. Francis Fox quickly beguiles many of his students, their parents and his colleagues, while leaving others in the small town wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic.\n\n\n When Fox disappears and parts of an unidentified body are discovered in nearby woods, the community begins to ask disturbing questions about the charming, mercurial teacher, and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic tale of crime, complicity and revenge, Fox is an unsettling portrait of a cunning predator, which illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche.\n\n\n \n ‘Breathless and febrile … an utterly mesmeric account of how one man’s crimes can affect an entire community’\n GUARDIAN\n \n\n\n \n ‘Impressive and unsettling’\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n \n ‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n ‘Mesmerising … another masterclass from one of America's greatest writers’ MICHAEL CONNELLY, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

‘Impressive and unsettling'\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n 'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n 'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies' \n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n 'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n \n A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.\n\n\n \n 'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ \n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n 'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY\n\n\n 'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI\n\n\n \n 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing'\n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’\n SEATTLE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’\n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n ‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’\n KIRKUS REVIEWS\n \n\n\n ...

‘Impressive and unsettling'\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n 'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n 'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies' \n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n 'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n \n A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.\n\n\n \n 'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ \n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n 'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY\n\n\n 'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI\n\n\n \n 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing'\n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’\n SEATTLE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’\n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n ‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’\n KIRKUS REVIEWS\n \n\n\n ...

‘Impressive and unsettling'\n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n 'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN\n\n\n \n 'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’\n ECONOMIST\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies' \n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n 'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’\n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n \n A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.\n \n\n\n Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.\n\n\n A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.\n\n\n \n 'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ \n LOS ANGELES TIMES\n \n\n\n 'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY\n\n\n 'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI\n\n\n \n 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing'\n FINANCIAL TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’\n SEATTLE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’\n BIG ISSUE\n \n\n\n \n ‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’\n KIRKUS REVIEWS\n \n\n\n ...

‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN\n\n\n \n 'A master storyteller' \n THE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Electric' \n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n \n Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\n \n\n\n A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide.\n\n\n In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.\n\n\n \n ‘Alluringly dark and spiky’ \n NEW STATESMAN\n \n\n\n ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE\n\n\n \n ‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’ \n DAILY MAIL\n \n\n\n \n ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ \n INDEPENDENT

‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN\n\n\n \n 'A master storyteller' \n THE TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Electric' \n NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n \n\n\n \n Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.\n \n\n\n A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide.\n\n\n In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.\n\n\n \n ‘Alluringly dark and spiky’ \n NEW STATESMAN\n \n\n\n ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE\n\n\n \n ‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’ \n DAILY MAIL\n \n\n\n \n ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ \n INDEPENDENT