Desperate characters

156 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 1999 by W.W. Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-31894-4
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OCLC Number:
40396152

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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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Subjects

  • Psychological fiction
  • Married women
  • Domestic fiction
  • City and town life
  • Fiction

Places

  • New York (State)
  • New York