The Foxman

I first recieved a copy of this book when I went to school during R.I.F., the description sounded to be an okay read - who was I to complain about a free book?While reading, I discovered this book to be a great story of a young man coming of age and finding his place in the world while developing a friendship with an older man who happened to be a veteran of war who help each other find peace with thier past and brings hope for the future.Sometime later, somehow, I lost my copy. I was pleased to have found it on this site and quickly purchased it.Upon it's arrival, it is thinner than I remember it being; and, through reading The Foxman, it has broght back memories of my childhood long forgotten.Reading it now I still find it to be a good story and someday hope to share it with my children.

I loved reading this book in middle school and I just seen it on Amazon and I had to get it.

Classic, clean book.

Awesome experience

Very good book.

I am hooked on all the Gary Paulson series. If you need a lot of sleep do not read these in bed. Jackie

R The fifteen-year-old unnamed narrator spends an autumn and winter with his relatives in a far northern region, because of his family’s dysfunction andand dangerous lifestyle. Together with his 17-year-old cousin, Carl, he learns to trap,“read sign,” shoot and enjoy the freedom of sustainable forestry. Then when a fierce stormcauses them to stumble onto an isolated shack they enter, warily, to save their lives.But self-preservation comes at a cost: their host’s face is so disfigured that he immediatelydons a mask, which only reveals pained but compassionate eyes. Over the weeks the Narrator finds himself drawn back to the recluse’s hut, but onlyon his own, on the sly. He not only yearns to learn the reason for the mask, but feels a desireto understand why most old soldiers love to recount their war stories—which the N. does notfind amusing. Although grateful for his uncle’s hospitality and affection, the N. insists onlearning more about the previous generation’s military struggles. He comes of agethat rugged winter, but eventually faces a serious, adult moral dilemma re his role in keepingthe Foxman's secret.. Paulsen’s style is starkly direct, increased by his deliberately refusing to name eitherof the two main characters. Readers are introduced to various winter survival techniques--as well as get a crash course in winter trapping. The disfigured host gradually takes ona new personal in the N.’s mind: that of the Fox Man, for he proves uncannily sly in order to outfox thatcrafty creature. For boys 16 and up, and kids of all ages. February 22, 2020

The Foxman is a coming-of-age story about the horrors of war and the beauty of nature. It is set in the remote wilderness of Minnesota, during the time of the Korean war. When the 15-year-old narrator is sent to live with relatives on an isolated farm after his alcoholic parents hit the skids, he feels like a stranger dumped in a foreign, confusing landscape. But after he meets “the Foxman” - a horribly disfigured war vet living deep in the woods, he begins to understand the world, with all its beauty and injustices, a little more every day. This is a book about layered friendships, growing (emotional) scar tissue, and discovering that most of the time, listening and quiet observation beats out talking almost every time.Gary Paulsen in a master storyteller. Whenever I’m feeling stuck or frustrated with my own writing, I read or listen to a G.P. book. He tells it like it is. No frills. No unnecesary words. No bullish*t. It’s so refreshing. His books are “pull up your socks and get the job done” sorts of books. Maybe a little old school, but in an age where we now have a clinical “condition” for every kind of discomfort known to mankind, I find them refreshing. Character building stuff, and when you’ve finished this one, you’ll also have a few tips about roughing it in the bush, too.The Foxman is a northern adventure that will entertain, pulls at your heartstrings and educate you all at the same time. Thank you, Gary Paulsen, for keeping it real.