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Desperate Characters

  • Paula Fox

4.00

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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".

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Married women
  • City and town life
  • Fiction, general
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
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About the author

  • Paula Fox

    1923 - 2017

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    14 ratings · 62 works

Editions

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    W.W. Norton

    1999

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    Dtv

    May 1, 2002

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    Hoffmann & Campe

    September 1, 2001

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    C.H.Beck

    February 1, 2000

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El Aleph

March 2, 2006

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    Nonpareil Books, Brand: David R Godine Pub, David R Godine Pub

    1980

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    New Ed edition

    Flamingo

    June 16, 2003

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    W.W. Norton

    1999

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    Flamingo

    June 16, 2003

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2013

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    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

    1999

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    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

    2015

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    Macmillan

    1970

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    David R. Godine Publisher

    September 1983

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    [1st ed.]

    Harcourt, Brace & World

    1970