Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

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.

Paula Fox was born in New York City in 1923 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. When she was eight she moved to a Cuban plantation and stayed for two years. Before and after Cuba, she seldom lived anyplace longer than a year or so. She is the author of several books for adults among which are DESPERATE CHARACTERS: A NOVEL and BORROWED FINERY: A MEMOIR. Her many books for children include the Newbery Award winning novel, THE SLAVE DANCER.

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ISBN 13	9780393318944
ISBN 10	039331894X
Title	Desperate Characters
Author	Paula Fox
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1999-05-17
Number of pages	156
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