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Title: Foxybaby (Contemporary American Fiction) by Elizabeth Jolley ISBN: 0-14-008380-4 Publisher: Penguin Group USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A different way to look at things
Comment: I find that this author has a very delicate way of exploring undelicate subjects. THe main character is a writer, and that is obvious by the imagination she showes. Often when someone is talking to her, she will picture a scene in her mind, with the person in question playing the leading role. Although i feel this book approaches problems in a brilliant way, the only problem is that the author doesnt carry them out to their full potential.

Rating: 3
Summary: What was that all about?
Comment: A strange and unilluminating adventure during the winter break of Miss Porch, a somewhat sexless, mild-mannered,schoolteacher/writer.

On her way to a college/fat-farm to begin her drama class, she crashes into the back of a bus. Her van is completely disabled and escape becomes as difficult as it is desirable when her experience at the school begins to resemble a trip to Dante's Inferno. Instead of fire and brimstone however, Mrs. Castle, Miss Porch's room-mate supplies much of the torture in the form of endless chatter about her three grandchildren.

Miss Porch presents her class with a piece she is writing, "Foxybaby". It concerns a drug-wrecked young single mother on the run with her infant and her father. The father, suspiciouly guilty for undefined past sins against his daughter, attempts to create a relationship with his pitiful daughter.

Miss Porch's insistence that only punk and hard rock be used during the performance of the piece is relentlessly ignored. Instead, the work is accompanied by original music composed and played by the director of the school/fat farm, Mrs. Peycroft, and her sidekick, Miss Paisley, on double bass and tapping sticks. Adding to Miss Porch's consternation, Mrs.Peycroft demands the students mime the action as Miss. Porch reads.

Lesbians and gay men seem to be in the majority at the school. (Unusual in reality,not addressed in this novel.) Why things happen as they do is left up to the reader's imagination.In fact, this reader's imagination was greatly taxed by Jolley's novel. Nevertheless, somehow, probably because of Jolley's jolly humor,the book is enjoyable.