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Desperate Characters

Name: Desperate Characters
ISBN: 9780393318944

Paula Fox

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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."

"A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." ― David Foster Wallace

Review"[Desperate Characters]―tense, quick, prickling with suppressed panic―is very much of its time and has a lot to say to ours, too. If you’ve never read it, or if, like me, it’s been a while since you did, now is an excellent moment to pick it up."
― Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
"A masterwork of economical prose…Remarkable…[O]ne can only wonder who is more fatally deluded―the desperate characters of the Bentwoods' era or the hyperconfident ones of our own."
― Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
"Absorbing, elegant."
― Charles Winecoff, Entertainment Weekly
"Packed with lucid insights."
― Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment Weekly
"A perfect short novel…As in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, everything crucial within our souls bared."
― Andrea Barrett
"This perfect novel about pain is as clear, and as wholly believable, and as healing, as a fever dream."
― Frederick Busch
"The first time I read Desperate Characters…I fell in love with it."
― Jonathan Franzen
"Fox dissects a marriage and a social class with the sharpest of knives, cannily undermining n

الفئات:

Fiction - Family Sagas

عام:

1970

الناشر:

W. W. Norton & Company

اللغة:

english

الصفحات:

192

ISBN 10:

039331894X