Desperate Characters
A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved. — David Foster WallaceOtto 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 th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-34212-3
- EAN: 9780393342123
- Produktnummer: 34248503
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 448 KB
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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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