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Desperate Characters

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paula Fox, Jonathan Franzen (Introduction by)Publish date:2015-03-30Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393351101ISBN-10:393351106UPC:9780393351101Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, City LifeBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCGNRBGM4K

Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.

First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature -- a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day."

Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393351101ISBN-10:393351106UPC:9780393351101Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, City LifeBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCGNRBGM4K
Fox, Paula: - Paula Fox (1923--2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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