Desperate Characters
a novel
About this book
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".
Subjects
- city and town life
- domestic fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- literature
- married women
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- psychological fiction