{"id":1171,"date":"2019-07-29T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:09:16","slug":"faber-short-story-review-mrs-fox-by-sarah-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2019\/07\/29\/faber-short-story-review-mrs-fox-by-sarah-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Faber Short Story Review \u2013 Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cShe is standing on the kitchen table, an unmistakable silhouette, cut from the wild\u201d (Hall, 2019, pg.17). Hall\u2019s prize-winning, magical realist short story Mrs Fox <\/em>(2013) is based on the short novel by David Garnett Lady into Fox<\/em> (1922), published just seven years after Kafka\u2019s famous story of human-to-animal transformation, Metamorphosis<\/em>.  Like the texts of a century earlier, Hall\u2019s story is set within the mundane domestic realm and raises many questions about the status of our humanness, our humanity, and our animality.  However, it offers an update insofar as it also raises pertinent questions about our relationship with the natural realm, and our position as animals within a global ecosystem undergoing rapid alteration.  These themes permeate the work of Sarah Hall (b.1974, Cumbria) who has written five novels and two collections of short stories. Mrs Fox<\/em> is an excellent avenue into Hall\u2019s work as the 36-page story represents not only her skill and writerly tone but also her recurrent themes: nature and our place within it, the wildness within, and the experience of living in a female body (in this case, one which is not even human). Following on from reading Mrs Fox<\/em>, you might consider reading one of Hall\u2019s short story collections, or one of her novels: in particular, the eco-dystopian The Carhullan Army <\/em>(2007) or her historical debut novel, Haweswater <\/em>(2002), are highly recommended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Melanie Ebdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe is standing on the kitchen table, an unmistakable silhouette, cut from the wild\u201d (Hall, 2019, pg.17). Hall\u2019s prize-winning, magical realist short story Mrs Fox (2013) is based on the short novel by David Garnett Lady into Fox (1922), published just seven years after … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}