Desperate Characters
A Fiction, Novels, 20th Century book. I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in...
A Great American Novel -- from the author of Borrowed Finery. 'A masterpiece.' Observer 'Inarguably great. Desperate Characters soars above every other work of American realist fiction since the Second World War.' JONATHAN FRANZEN Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage - and a society - wrenching itself apart. * A scorching portrait of a 1960s New York marriage which opens out into a brilliant examination of the paradoxes of civilisation. * A classic of American literature from a writer championed and brought back into print...
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It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched material of the seats that lined the three walls. It smelled of the tobacco ashes which had flooded the two standing metal ashtrays. On the chromium lip of one, a cigar butt gleamed wetly like a chewed piece of beef. There was the smell of peanut shells and of the waxy candy wrappers that littered the floor, the smell of old newspapers, dry, inky, smothering and faintly like a urinal, the smell of sweat from armpits and groins... How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose. Paula Fox, Desperate Characters Suddenly drained of the nervous excitement which had made her forget momentarily her tiredness and the monochromatic dullness of this early morning, she buried her face in the edge of the bed. Otto, somewhat apathetically, began to stroke her bag beneath her nightgown. She was grateful that they had not foughtshe didn't have the energybut a sullen disappointment roiled about just behind her gratitude. Was Otto going to make love to her while the Negro in the street slept in his own vomit? Paula Fox, Desperate Characters
4.5 stars. This is a brilliant short novel that in less than 200 pages really gets in your head and under your skin. I think a second reading is probably required to fully appreciate all the subtext. Can't wait to discuss this one with my book group. Okay. Here is my unsophisticated reaction to this sophisticated novel.First off, I most assuredly appreciated the writing. The sentences were a work of art, beautifully constructed with just the right amount of detail.I recognize that this novel was meant to be Symbolic and to offer lots of Great Themes. And that I probably missed a... I feel a a little stupid not liking this book. However if you needed an example of intellectual navel gazing this book would be a perfect example
