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Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.\u201d\u2014Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n

“Depending on the light, it\u2019s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. But no matter how you turn it, The Vixen offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America, then and now.”\u2014Washington Post<\/p>\n

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg\u2014an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches, exclusive literary parties, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits, a far cry from his loving, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island.<\/p>\n

But Simon\u2019s first assignment\u2014editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, a potboiler intended to shore up the firm\u2019s failing finances\u2014makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that, at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings, he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg\u2019s. His parents mourn Ethel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Simon\u2019s dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixen\u2019s author, the startlingly beautiful, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen, as the confluence of sex, money, politics and power spirals out of Simon\u2019s control, he must face what he\u2019s lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parents\u2019 Coney Island apartment for the witty, whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss, the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot\u2014and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At once domestic and political, contemporary and historic, funny and heartbreaking, enlivened by surprising plot turns and passages from Anya\u2019s hilariously bad novel, The Vixen illuminates a period of history with eerily striking similarities to the current moment. Meanwhile it asks timeless questions: How do we balance ambition and conscience? What do social mobility and cultural assimilation require us to sacrifice? How do we develop an authentic self, discover a vocation, and learn to live with the mysteries of love, family, art, life and loss?<\/p>\n


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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Harper (June 29, 2021)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 336 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0063012146
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0063012141
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1.15 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6 x 1.09 x 9 inches <\/p>\n

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