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An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea CardinalFox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime stories, he has learned to speak 'Yuman'. The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is 'danjur' on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pack's food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.
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Fox 8, George Saunders, Chelsea Cardinal
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Fox 8
- Language
- English
- Authors
- George Saunders, Chelsea Cardinal
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN13
- 9781526606488
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Fantasy, Animals, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, Friendship, Environmental Themes, Death, Novellas, Loss, Journey, Forests, Morality, Pain
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea CardinalFox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime stories, he has learned to speak 'Yuman'. The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is 'danjur' on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his pack's food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.