Desperate Characters - Couverture souple

Fox, Paula

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393351106 ISBN 13 : 9780393351101

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393351106
• ISBN 13: 9780393351101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible