num_pages: 200
description: 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.
language: German
title: Was am Ende bleibt.
titlecomplete: Was am Ende bleibt.
characters: Sophie Bentwood, Leon Fischer, Francis Early, Charlie Russel, Claire Fischer, Otto Bentwood
genres: Classics, American, New York, Female Authors, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 8075
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
publisher: C.H.Beck