Desperate Characters
by Fox, Paula | New BookDescription
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."

Author(s): | Fox, Paula |
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Book Type: | New Book |
Format: | Paperback |
ISBN-10: | 0393351106 |
EAN: | 9780393351101 |
Language: | English |
Number of Pages: | 192 |
Publication Date: | 2015-03-30 |
Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Weight: | 0.4 Pounds |
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