TY - BOOK AU - Fox,Paula AU - Franzen,Jonathan TI - Desperate characters SN - 0393351106 PY - 2015///?] CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - City and town life KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Fiction KW - Married women KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970; "First published as a Norton paperback 1999"--Title page verso N2 - 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 ER -