Sandra Barron’s Reviews > Fox > Status Update

At its heart, this novel is a glimpse into the mind of a sociopath. It has notes of American Psycho. It’s about a pedophile, a character very much like Humphrey Humphrey in Lolita. Oates’s portrait of Francis Fox is framed in a tantalizing crime mystery, and it’s the mystery, along with her masterful writing that keeps me reading.