When Fox is a Thousand
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When Fox is a Thousand

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When Fox is a Thousand

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When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.

With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval China, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit women's bodies in order to cause mischief). Her potent imagination and considerable verbal skill result in a tale that continues to haunt long after the story is told.

First published to wide acclaim in 1995 and out of print since 2001, this new edition of When Fox is a Thousand, published by Arsenal Pulp Press for the first time, features a new foreword by the author.

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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9781551523392
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedicaiton
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Part 1 How the Fox Came to Live Alone
  7. Part 2 The Familiar Shape
  8. Part 3 Degrees of Recognition
  9. Part 4 When Fox Is a Thousand
  10. Source Notes
  11. Afterword