Foxybaby

3 December 2010

Territory Rights — Worldwide, excluding Australia and New Zealand.

Description

Rediscovered: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists.

In Foxbaby, Alma Porch, aspiring dramatist, agrees to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight women. There she's surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and a motley array of staff and students eager to improve their minds and diminish their flesh by acting in her play, Foxybaby.

Reviews

"A literary romp...merges fiction and fact in a campy style...Alma Porch is a well-drawn and endearing guide." — Washington Post

"Hilarious, wry, disturbing, and optimistic." — Boston Globe

"A witty, sophisticated novel." — Library Journal

"Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson….This darkly comic tale will appeal to those who love novels of eccentricity and the many foibles of human nature." — MostlyFiction Book Reviews

"Not just a delicious caper. . . .[It glows] in the mind because . . . informed by Jolley’s understanding of our common loneliness and her sympathy with the myriad, ingenious connections we try to make to alleviate it." — Roberta Silman, The Arts Fuse

"The work of Elizabeth Jolley is a reminder of the glorious contradictions of literature: it's a specific chronicle and a universal exploration, endlessly experimental and easy to read, heartbreaking and hilarious and wise and naive. It's like life, and reading Jolley makes one feel alive." — Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)

"Hilarious and bawdy." — Robert Coover

"Delicious . . . a novel of pungent charm." — Angela Carter

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Paperback

9780892553631

140 x 211 mm • 272 pages

£11.99

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