Desperate characters
by Fox, Paula
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.
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- Full title :Desperate characters / Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
Summary
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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:[2017], ©1970
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication:New York, New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:[2017], ©1970
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 156 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780393351101, 0393351106, 039331894X, 9780393318944
- oclc:on1107415791
- LC Classification:PS3556.O94
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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