In fact, things not going to plan is a tension at the heart of Confessions of the Fox, a debut novel that's fascinated with the the power of a little chaos, for freedom's sake, in the face of the kind of commodification - of people, of sexuality, of identity, of knowledge, of stories - that threatens to suffocate life itself. Voth ("a guy by design, not birth") soon discovers he's inherited the autobiographical "confessions" of notorious thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard and his lover Edgeworth Bess, and sets about attempting to add some academic footnotes. Voth gets his hands on a moldering manuscript nobody in his university library seems to want. In some version of our maybe-present, professor R. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Confessions of the Fox Author Jordy Rosenberg
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