Title: Desperate Characters
Subtitle: a novel
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".
Subjects: Fiction, Married women, City and town life, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
Places: New York (State), New York