Desperate Characters

Description

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.”

Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Paula Fox,Jonathan Franzen (Introduction by)
Published: 03/30/2015
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393351101
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
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.