![]() His engaging inquiry asks the reader to invest in this world, one that is both far from and adjacent to our own. As he goes along, he tries to make sense of how individual and collective histories interact with stories, and how they complicate and contradict each other. While the plot of The Vixen is rich and surprising, Simon’s narrative voice carries the novel. ![]() Once there, he is handed a challenge: to prepare for publication a salacious, pulpy, vaguely terrible novel about the Rosenbergs.Īs Simon works to uncover the story behind the novel, he discovers more secrets than he could have imagined. After a harrowing evening with his parents, watching the execution of his mother’s childhood friend Ethel Rosenberg and her husband, Julius (American citizens convicted of spying for the Soviet Union), Simon finds himself with a new job at a major New York publishing house. ![]() Newly graduated from Harvard, Simon Putnam isn’t sure how to make his way in the world. ![]() ![]() In a world where facts are questioned but truth still matters, Francine Prose’s latest novel, The Vixen, raises questions of what we know, how we know it and whose stories get told. ![]()
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