Desperate Characters
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Description de l’éditeur
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels
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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Desperate Characters
Ms. Fox presents us with a novel that is not simply a story for common consumption. It is rife with symbolism, deeper meanings and hidden morals. Books like this were on my plate in University, 35 years ago...I'm not sure I have the gumption any more, for all of the deeper meanings to be gleaned from a story such as this. It was a good, story, don't get me wrong, but I need something a little less deep at this stage of my life. It is interesting to note the nuances of society living in middle class New York in 1968, though.