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Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton - Paperback, by Paula Fox
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- n/a
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Large Print
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780393318944
- Book Title
- Desperate Characters
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 7.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039331894X
ISBN-13
9780393318944
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038297359
Product Key Features
Book Title
Desperate Characters
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-051183
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Desperate Characters is, simply, a perfect short novel. A few characters, a small stretch of time; setting and action tightly confined--and yet, as in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, everything crucial within our souls bared., This perfect novel about pain is as clear, and as wholly believable, and as healing, as a fever dream.
Dewey Decimal
813/.5/4
Synopsis
"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 childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives. The fault lines of their marriage are revealed -- echoing the fractures of society around them, slowly 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.", Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives. The fault lines of their marriage are revealed echoing the fractures of society around them, slowly 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."
LC Classification Number
PS3556.O94D47 1999
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