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Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Paula Fox is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A Great American Novel -- from the author of Borrowed Finery. 'A masterpiece.' Observer 'Inarguably great. Desperate Characters soars above every other work of American realist fiction since the Second World War.' JONATHAN FRANZEN 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 outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to fee
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Paula Fox
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333120729
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.78 / 5 (609 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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