Parametry
- 156 stron
- 6 godzin czytania
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Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives. The fault lines of their marriage are revealed — echoing the fractures of society around them, slowly 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 ." "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace
Zakup książki
Desperate Characters, Paula Fox
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 1999
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
Metody płatności
Brakuje nam tutaj Twojej recenzji.
- Tytuł
- Desperate Characters
- Podtytuł
- With an introduction by Jonathan Franzen
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Paula Fox
- Wydawca
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Rok wydania
- 1999
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 156
- ISBN10
- 039331894X
- ISBN13
- 9780393318944
- Seria
- Tagi
- Miłość, Rodzina, Kobiety, Literatura współczesna, Z dreszczykiem, USA, Relacje, Literatura amerykańska, Małżeństwo, Nowele, Nowy Jork, Ameryka, Życie codzienne, Skandale & Afery
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1970
- Oryginalna nazwa
- Desperate Characters
- Ocena
- 3,5 z 5
- Opis
- Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives. The fault lines of their marriage are revealed — echoing the fractures of society around them, slowly 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 ." "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." —David Foster Wallace