Desperate Characters
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 wit…
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Weitere Autoren: Franzen, Jonathan (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-35110-1
- EAN: 9780393351101
- Produktnummer: 17193812
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1970
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.5 cm 182 g
- Gewicht: 182
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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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