Desperate Characters Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Paula Fox
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
96

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Book Summary

One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years

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

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."

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Book Name Desperate Characters
Genre Literary
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Language English
E-Book Size 753.79 KB

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Summary of Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

The Desperate Characters book written by Paula Fox was published on 17 May 1999, Monday in the Literary category. A total of 96 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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