Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg
Random House Publishing Group
<b>A love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures, this genre-bending debut tells a profound story of gender, desire, and liberation.</b><br><b>"Resonant of George Saunders, of Nikolai Gogol, and of nothing that's ever been written before . . . irreverent, erudite, and not to be missed."&#8212;<i>Booklist</i> (starred review)</b><br> Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.<br>Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript&#8212;a gender-defying expos&eacute; of Jack and Bess's adventures. Dated 1724, the book depicts a London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with the city's newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of the Plague abound. Jack&#8212;a transgender carpenter's apprentice&#8212;has...</br></br></br>