Can I read Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction) on EtoBox?

Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Fox, Paula is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction) about?

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 towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." ― David Foster WallaceReview"[Desperate Characters]―tense, quick, prickling with suppressed panic―is very much of its time and has a lot to say to ours, too. If you’ve never read it, or if, like me, it’s been a while since you did, now is an excellent moment to pick it up."― Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker"A masterwork of economical prose...Remark

Who reads Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)?

Author

Fox, Paula

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393318944

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

3.78 / 5 (609 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14