The vixen : a novel

Resource Information

The work The vixen : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

The vixen : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Francine Prose

Creator

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Contributor

• Morris, Tristan

Author

• Prose, Francine, 1947-

Narrator

• Morris, Tristan

Subject

• Family secrets -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Jews -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Novels
• Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Audiobooks
• Book editors -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Novels
• Fiction
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

It's 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches, exclusive literary parties, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits, a far cry from his loving, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island. But Simon's first assignment--editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances--makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that, at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings, he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's. His parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon's dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixen's author, the startlingly beautiful, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen, as the confluence of sex, money, politics and power spirals out of Simon's control, he must face what he's lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parents' Coney Island apartment for the witty, whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss, the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot--and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future

Cataloging source

TOH

Dewey number

813/.54

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PS3566.R68

LC item number

V59 2021ab

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Tristan Morris

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable