Foxybaby
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
From the singular imagination of Elizabeth Jolley comes Foxybaby, a darkly comic and psychologically intricate novel set against the claustrophobic confines of a remote summer school for weight loss, where aspiring writer Miss Alma Porch finds herself entangled in the strange, overlapping lives of students and staff alike. As Miss Porch attempts to write and stage a play — a lurid story she calls Foxybaby — reality and fiction begin to collapse into one another, drawing the reader into a narrative that is by turns farcical, melancholic, and deeply unsettling. Jolley constructs a world of quiet desperation and dark humour, where loneliness, desire, and the hunger for human connection manifest in richly absurd situations. A towering figure of Australian literature, Jolley brings to Foxybaby the same compassionate yet unflinching gaze that distinguishes her finest work, weaving together themes of identity, creativity, and the painful comedy of self-delusion. Her prose is precise and rhythmically assured, capable of shifting from wry satire to piercing emotional insight within a single passage. Published by the University of Queensland Press, this novel stands as a testament to Jolley's unique ability to illuminate the tragicomic margins of human experience — and leaves the reader questioning just where the performance ends and the truth begins.
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
From the singular imagination of Elizabeth Jolley comes Foxybaby, a darkly comic and psychologically intricate novel set against the claustrophobic confines of a remote summer school for weight loss, where aspiring writer Miss Alma Porch finds herself entangled in the strange, overlapping lives of students and staff alike. As Miss Porch attempts to write and stage a play — a lurid story she calls Foxybaby — reality and fiction begin to collapse into one another, drawing the reader into a narrative that is by turns farcical, melancholic, and deeply unsettling. Jolley constructs a world of quiet desperation and dark humour, where loneliness, desire, and the hunger for human connection manifest in richly absurd situations. A towering figure of Australian literature, Jolley brings to Foxybaby the same compassionate yet unflinching gaze that distinguishes her finest work, weaving together themes of identity, creativity, and the painful comedy of self-delusion. Her prose is precise and rhythmically assured, capable of shifting from wry satire to piercing emotional insight within a single passage. Published by the University of Queensland Press, this novel stands as a testament to Jolley's unique ability to illuminate the tragicomic margins of human experience — and leaves the reader questioning just where the performance ends and the truth begins.