There is quite a bit of sex, discussion of both Dr. It is very focused on the body–which may be potentially triggering for some people. Voth discusses his HRT, and the manuscript details (really details) Jack’s top surgery. The book prominently centers trans issues through these dueling narratives: Dr. The footnotes go into his personal life and his own experiences as a trans man, which makes him the perfect person to present the text of Jack Sheppard–who, for the first time, is identified as a trans man in this strange manuscript of Dr. As readers, we discover the manuscript alongside Dr Voth, illuminated by his translations of outdated terms (if you ever time travel back to Plague-era London and arsenal of colloquialisms for pussy and pick-pocketing, and what more do you need really), but we also learn about his life and his struggles as an academic. Voth, which become almost a secondary text, the two stories existing side by side. The book is framed by the narrative and notes of Dr. Voth, an academic who has discovered a strange manuscript, and who becomes our guide into the life and times of Sheppard. All of these genres weave into each other in this book, creating a dizzying and ambitious double narrative: Primarily, the story of Jack Sheppard, famed thief and jail-escapee, supported by the translations and notes of Dr R. Thriller, heist story, academic drama, anti-capitalist manifesto. There are a few terms that could describe Confessions of the Fox–historical romance, maybe. ‘Confessions of the Fox’ by Jordy Rosenberg

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