Paula Fox 
Desperate Characters [EPUB ebook] 

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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels


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 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.’

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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.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 192 ● ISBN 9780393342123 ● Dimensione 4.7 MB ● Casa editrice W. W. Norton & Company ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 1999 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7468635 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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