Cover of Desperate Characters

Desperate Characters

a novel

by Paula Fox

1980 166 pages eng ★ 4.4 (7 ratings)

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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