Amy's review
Foxfire
by Joyce Carol Oates
Amy's review
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Amy's review
rating:
I remember seeing the movie based on this book in Blockbuster shortly after it came out on video, but I kept confusing it in my head with The Craft. So maybe that's why I was surprised to learn that, not only was it a book, but it was a book by Joyce Carol Oates.
I still haven't seen the movie, although I did Tivo an airing of it on Lifetime recently, but I gather that they decided to set it in the present day. The book is set in the 50's, where even the gangs seemed more innocent and quaint (One of them male rival gangs is called the "Viscounts." Doesn't it kind of crack you up that a gang boy would even know that word?) Not that the gang members, and the Foxfire girls in particular, don't engage in plenty of criminal behavior.
The gang is formed, though, by these girls who didn't have any family or very many friends, who were just trying to form their own family; their goal is to live independent of any adults; they also live independent of men; one member is ostracized f...more
I still haven't seen the movie, although I did Tivo an airing of it on Lifetime recently, but I gather that they decided to set it in the present day. The book is set in the 50's, where even the gangs seemed more innocent and quaint (One of them male rival gangs is called the "Viscounts." Doesn't it kind of crack you up that a gang boy would even know that word?) Not that the gang members, and the Foxfire girls in particular, don't engage in plenty of criminal behavior.
The gang is formed, though, by these girls who didn't have any family or very many friends, who were just trying to form their own family; their goal is to live independent of any adults; they also live independent of men; one member is ostracized f...more
