The manuscript documents Sheppard's love affair with Bess, their criminal escapades, their memories of childhood, and their run-ins with authority. It also reveals that Bess is of South Asian ( Lascar) descent and that she grew up in the Fens. The manuscript reveals that Sheppard (like Voth) is a transgender man, and describes his experience of transitioning gender. A 21st-century academic, Dr Voth, discovers a manuscript that claims to be the confessions of Jack Sheppard. The novel is structured as a story within a story. Rosenberg is most famous for his novel, Confessions of the Fox, which is an 18th-century historical fiction novel. The criticism of academia present in Confessions of the Fox poses an interesting question if this is a hint into his own experience in the field. Jordy Rosenberg is a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers. Since then, he has gotten much recognition and won many awards for his writing. Jordy Rosenberg released his debut novel, Confessions of the Fox, in June of 2018. It re-imagines the lives of Jack Sheppard, eighteenth-century English thief and jail-breaker, and his lover Edgeworth Bess. Confessions of the Fox is a novel by American writer and academic Jordy Rosenberg, first published in 2018.
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