Description
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.”
Product details
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393351106
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393351101
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #62,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #46 in City Life Fiction (Books)
- #2,500 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
- #4,537 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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