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Desperate Characters

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Informationen zum Autor Paula Fox’s novels include Desperate Characters, The Widow’s Children and Poor George. She is also a Newbery Award-winning children’s author. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext A Great American Novel - from the author of 'Borrowed Finery'. 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 outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage - and a society - wrenching itself apart. Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen. Zusammenfassung A Great American Novel – from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.

About the author

Paula Fox’s novels include Desperate Characters, The Widow’s Children and Poor George. She is also a Newbery Award-winning children’s author. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product details

Authors Paula Fox, Fox Paula
Publisher Flamingo
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 16.06.2003
 
EAN 9780007150380
ISBN 978-0-00-715038-0
No. of pages 156
Dimensions 129 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
Series Flamingo Pocketbooks
Flamingo Pocketbooks
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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