Desperate characters /
Fox, Paula,
Desperate characters / Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen. - 190 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. "First published as a Norton paperback 1999"--Title page verso.
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless steel sink is new, their Mercedes is parked at the curb. But when Sophie is bitten by a possibly rabies-infected stray cat, a series of disasters begin to plague the Brentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.--From publisher description.
0393351106 9780393351101
City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Married women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Desperate characters / Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen. - 190 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. "First published as a Norton paperback 1999"--Title page verso.
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless steel sink is new, their Mercedes is parked at the curb. But when Sophie is bitten by a possibly rabies-infected stray cat, a series of disasters begin to plague the Brentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.--From publisher description.
0393351106 9780393351101
City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Married women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.