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PUBLISHER W.W. NORTON
©1999
ISBN-10 039331894x
ISBN-13 9780393318944
FORMAT Paperback
PAGES 156
Size 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.5
Weight 0.4
PUBLISHED 1999-05-01
FICTION
From the Publisher
First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel 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" and "The Great Gatsby".
Review
Jennifer Schuessler -
New York Review of Books
"For all its unrelenting grimness, DESPERATE CHARACTERS is a novel of elegant sentences and very funny dialogue."
More about the book
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a seedy section of Brooklyn. When Sophie is bitten by a possibly rabid cat, the threatening nature of the Bentwoods' lives is revealed, and the aridity of their relationship.
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