β Scribed by Francine Prose
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**"**Francine Prose is a powerhouse. The Vixen will fascinate and complicate the histories that haunt our present moments. Like Coney Island's Cyclone, this story tumbles and tangles a reader's grip of reality. It's told with the heart, humor and daring of a true artist. Prose's Vixen is a triumph and a trip though the solid magic that books make real." --Samantha Hunt
"A rollicking trickster of a novel, wondrously funny and wickedly addictive." --Maria Semple****
**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 --an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world. **
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