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: Paula Fox
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/30/2015
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780393351101
Language: English
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