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Lady Into Fox
Lady Into Fox | David Garnett
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Lady into Fox was David Garnett's first novel under his own name. This short and enigmatic work won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize a year later. In 1939, British choreographer Andre Howard created a work of the same name based on Garnett's book for Ballet Rambert.
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ImperfectCJ
Lady Into Fox | David Garnett
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Umm...okay. Not sure what this just was, but it was short and interesting. Difficult not to read from a feminist perspective.

Chrissyreadit Thanks again for a lovely phone visit! ❤️ 1y
ImperfectCJ @Chrissyreadit And thank you! It was so nice to chat with you! 1y
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Michael_Gee
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So glad I got this on a whim last weekend (blurbed by Virginia Woolf!). A reverse Beauty and the Beast fable, where a respectable woman is inexplicably transformed into a fox. Her devoted husband‘s love is challenged as the transformation becomes more than surface level. It‘s a moving allegory for all the changes we see in people we love, and abt loving someone for who they are, not who they used to be or who you want them to be.

Michael_Gee Love the woodcuts by his then-wife Ray Garnett, and the naming of the husband‘s favorite little fox being Angelica (then a toddler, who Garnett would later marry. The sexy top right image is a portrait of Garnett done by his lover Duncan Grant, who was the father of Angelica). (edited) 3y
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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
Lady Into Fox | David Garnett
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This book captivated me from start to finish. I loved the story, as well as the writing. This book is the letter L for #LitsyAtoZ, and I read it also for the #192019challenge. It was first published in 1922 ;)
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Marchpane Nice selection! This looks like a very interesting little fable 😊 7y
Adventures-of-a-French-Reader @Marchpane Yes, it is. Without the challenge you created, I would have probably never found this book, so thank you ;) 7y
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