Tras la aclamada Carnicero, libro del año según El Mundo, vuelve la candidata al Nobel, finalista del Pulitzer y «sin duda de las mejores escritoras vivas de Estados Unidos» (The New York Times Magazine) con una novela de suspense inspirada en la dark academia. Francis Fox es un encantador profesor de inglés recién llegado a la idílica y exclusiva Academia Langhorne. Capaz de seducir con su carisma a casi todo el mundo, el profesor Fox también despierta la intriga de muchos sobre sus enigmáticos orígenes. Cuando dos hermanos descubren el coche de Fox medio sumergido en un estanque y partes de un cuerpo sin identificar esparcidas por los bosques cercanos, toda la comunidad empieza a hacerse preguntas inquietantes sobre su verdadera identidad. Una vertiginosa historia de crimen y complicidad, venganza y justicia, en la que Oates también ilumina los rincones más oscuros de la psique humana y plantea profundas cuestiones morales sobre las respuestas que exige el mal. Francis Fox, un personaje tan magnéticamente diabólico como el Tom Ripley de Highsmith y el Humbert Humbert de Nabokov, hechiza y manipula a casi todos los que le rodean, hasta que por fin conoce a alguien a quien no puede engañar. Escrita con el característico estilo intimista y arrollador de Oates, El señor Fox es un triunfo de artesanía literaria y arte, una novela tan profunda como propulsiva, tan conmovedora como llena de misterio. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An "enthralling" (Los Angeles Times) and "remarkably engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by legendary author Joyce Carol Oates "Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written."--Gillian Flynn "I found it mesmerizing front to back."--Michael Connelly AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Vulture, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, AV Club, AARP Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates's Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can't outfox. Written in Oates's trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.