Get personalized recommendations and earn points toward a free book!
Before you go...
Check Out These
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
See the List
Fox 8 by George Saunders

Look Inside

Read An Excerpt

Fox 8

A Story

A Story

A Story

By George Saunders
Illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

By George Saunders
Illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

By George Saunders
Illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

By George Saunders
Illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal

By George Saunders
Read by George Saunders

By George Saunders
Read by George Saunders

Best Seller
Hardcover $17.00

Nov 13, 2018 | 64 Pages

Ebook $4.99

Apr 09, 2013 | 64 Pages

Audiobook Download $1.99

Apr 09, 2013 | 37 Minutes

All Formats
+
    Fox 8 by George Saunders
    Hardcover
    Nov 13, 2018 | 64 Pages
    See All Formats (2) +

    Hardcover
    –

    • Hardcover $17.00

      Nov 13, 2018 | 64 Pages

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook $4.99

      Apr 09, 2013 | 64 Pages

    Audio
    +

    Buy the Audiobook Download:

    About Fox 8

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.

    Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer” arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack.

    Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called “the writer for our time.”

    About Fox 8

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world—featuring gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.

    Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regard with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until he develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman” by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer” arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack.

    Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called “the writer for our time.”

    About Fox 8

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world.

    Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak Yuman by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after danjer arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack.

    Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom The New York Times called “the writer for our time.”

    Read An Excerpt

    Also by George Saunders

    Lincoln in the Bardo
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
    Congratulations, by the way
    Tenth of December
    See all books by George Saunders

    Also by George Saunders

    Lincoln in the Bardo
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
    Congratulations, by the way
    Tenth of December
    See all books by George Saunders

    Also by George Saunders

    Lincoln in the Bardo
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
    Congratulations, by the way
    Tenth of December
    See all books by George Saunders

    About George Saunders

    George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan… More about George Saunders

    About George Saunders

    George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan… More about George Saunders

    About George Saunders

    George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Lannan… More about George Saunders

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $17.00
    Published by Random House
    Nov 13, 2018 | 64 Pages | 4-3/4 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9781984818027

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Random House
    Apr 09, 2013 | 64 Pages | ISBN 9780812995329

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $1.99
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 09, 2013 | 37 Minutes | ISBN 9780804163989

    People Who Read Fox 8 Also Read

    ‹ ›
    The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
    The Jungle Books
    The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    Armageddon in Retrospect
    Bringing Tony Home
    Wizards
    The Portable Conrad
    The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
    Harrowing the Dragon
    Making It Up
    The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories
    Collected Stories (Stegner, Wallace)
    Accelerando
    Tooth and Claw
    Count Zero
    Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories
    Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar
    The Portable Hawthorne
    Hot Spell
    Winesburg, Ohio
    Three Tales
    Master/Slave
    The Pacific and Other Stories
    The Time Machine
    All That Is Gone
    A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
    Bite
    The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
    Aesop's Fables
    Universal History of Iniquity
    Masterpieces
    Notes from Underground, the Grand Inquisitor
    Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
    The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
    The Complete Fairy Tales
    Silent Night
    Erotic Interludes
    The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
    Robot Visions
    The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories
    Four Stories by American Women
    Three Lives
    Uncle Remus

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Praise

    Praise for George Saunders

    “No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    “A true original—restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane.”—Jennifer Egan

    “There is no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity.”—Dave Eggers

    “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—Zadie Smith

    “The best short-story writer in English.”—Mary Karr

    “Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time.”—Khaled Hosseini

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    Download our Spring Fiction Sampler Now
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    TASTE img

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    LitFlash

    The eBooks you want at the lowest prices

    Read it Forward

    Read it first. Pass it on!
    First to Read

    First to Read

    Early access to Penguin Random House’s hottest new titles