{"product_id":"desperate-characters","title":"Desperate Characters","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDesperate Characters\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaula Fox\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393351101\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1970 to wide acclaim, \u003cem\u003eDesperate Characters\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \"\u003cem\u003eBilly Budd, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSeize the Day\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Desperate Characters | Paula Fox | Paperback | 9780393351101 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1680799 (temp: 10)","offer_id":48313029525656,"sku":"1680799","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71G20-ECj8L.jpg?v=1773159911","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/desperate-characters","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}