Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Paula Fox
A taut, unsettling novel of a disintegrating marriage and the quiet dread of 1960s Brooklyn life.
About This Book
Desperate Characters follows a childless Brooklyn couple whose weekend is disrupted by a cat bite and a series of unsettling events.
The novel examines the quiet fractures in their relationship and the growing sense of alienation around them.
Paula Fox’s spare prose captures the unease of middle-class life on the brink of change.
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