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Title: Desperate Characters

Author: Paula Fox

ISBN: 9780393351101

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reissue

Condition: Used Copy

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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.”