Desperate Characters

by Paula Fox

First published 1970 · 171 pages

About this book

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".

  • Fiction
  • Married women
  • City and town life
  • Fiction, general
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Literature

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