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Desperate Characters

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“A towering landmark of postwar Realism. … A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved.” — David Foster Wallace

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 — a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with «Billy Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day
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181 printed pages
Original publication
1999
Publication year
1999
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  • anastasiahas quoted6 years ago
    She had chosen him at a late moment in her life, when choices were almost always hypothetical. It was a choice out of time.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    Well, Im sorry, darling. But it wasnt a good idea to feed it
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    I dont care for the new people hes taken up with, the clients. I know whats always gone on in the office. Ive done the tiresome work while Charlies put on his funny hats and knocked everybody dead with personal charm.

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