Desperate Characters
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN13:
9780393351101
$14.95
One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism
A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." David Foster Wallace 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 marriageand a societywrenching 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: Paula Fox
- | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0393351106
- | ISBN-13: 9780393351101
- Author:
- Paula Fox
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- Mar 30, 2015
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0393351106
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393351101