Foxfire

By Joyce Carol Oates

Subjects: Adventure stories, Teenage girls, Gangs, Roman américain, New york (state), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Revenge

Description: The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power and vengeance on a world they never made--a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them.