'An ambitious, thought-provoking novel explores everything from gender identity to mass incarceration, moves between centuries, and even features footnotes. It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. ' Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. an intimate meditation on belonging that doubles as a political proof.' - The New Yorker Confessions is an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes an academic comedy. 'A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility. 'A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid eighteenth-century London. 'A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance against the hegemonic forces of eighteenth-century London. a bold first novel.' - Entertainment Weekly 'An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story. one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.' - The New York Times Book Review a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges. Read it.' -Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties

an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes an academic comedy spliced with period erotica an intimate meditation on belonging.' -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.

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. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript-a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess's adventures.

Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Yet no one knows the true story their confessions have never been found. Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - HuffPost - Kirkus Reviews - Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award - Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - 'A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.'- Time a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.' Description A New York Times Editors' Choice: 'A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London.

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