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Desperate Characters: A Modern Classic American Novel About a Marriage Under Pressure

Desperate Characters: A Modern Classic American Novel About a Marriage Under Pressure

Paula Fox

Desperate Characters: A Modern Classic American Novel About a Marriage Under Pressure

January 1, 1970180 pages
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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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