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Desperate CharactersPaula Fox

Desperate Characters

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12 editions · 3 languages
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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".

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12 editions · 3 languages
  • Other · English · 2015
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 192 pages · 9780393351101
  • Other · English · 2013
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007397457
  • Other · English · 2003
    Flamingo · 176 pages · 9780007150380
  • Other · English · 1999
    W.W. Norton · 156 pages · 9780393318944
  • Other · English · 1999
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 192 pages · 9780393342123
  • Other · English · 1980
    Nonpareil Books · 166 pages · 9780879233099
FictionMarried womenCity and town lifeFiction, generalNew york (n.y.), fictionPsychological fictionDomestic fictionLiterature