{"product_id":"desperate-characters-paperback-1","title":"Desperate Characters - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaula Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227816673529,"sku":"9780393351101","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eUNmdHNWRWtzRStGbXpsSUh2WlpXdz09_b9fa8fa5-d548-4b92-909b-abbb60868932.webp?v=1768285577","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/desperate-characters-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}