Desperate characters / Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015?]Description: 190 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393351106
- 9780393351101
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Fox, Paula | Available | Staining on top corners of back half of pages | 33111009667268 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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."
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.