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An edition of Desperate Characters: a novel (1970)

Desperate Characters

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 119 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

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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Publisher
Flamingo
Pages
176

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Previews available in: German English

Subjects
Fiction, Married women, City and town life, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
Places
New York (State), New York

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Desperate Characters
June 16, 2003, Flamingo
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Was am Ende bleibt.
February 1, 2000, C.H.Beck
Hardcover in German
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Desperate characters
1999, W.W. Norton
in English
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Desperate characters
1999, W.W. Norton
in English
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Desperate characters: a novel
1980, Nonpareil Books, Brand: David R Godine Pub, David R Godine Pub
in English
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"Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bentwood drew out their chairs simultaneously."

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Library of Congress
PS3556.O94

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OL7262478M
ISBN 10
0007150385
ISBN 13
9780007150380
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120128
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96544

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