Desperate characters
By: Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen
Series: Norton paperback fiction
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780393318944
Subjects: Psychological fiction; Married women; Domestic fiction; City and town life; Fiction
Description: 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".