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Desperate Characters is a 1970 novel by Paula Fox . Plot. Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a childless, upper-middle class married couple who live in a brownstone in Brooklyn. She is a translator, he an attorney, currently preoccupied by the acrimonious break-up of his long-time business partnership.
Jan 1, 2001 · Scene: a renovated brownstone in Brooklyn, NY, on a street that is experiencing urban gentrification, but whose back overlooks a decaying slum. Main characters: Otto and Sophie Bentwood, a wealthy, highly-literate couple who have been married for 15 years, childless, both 40.
Mar 9, 2017 · “Desperate Characters” is partly about gentrification in New York, an inescapable fact of life in the city as we live it now. But it was published in 1970, and so the late-sixties New York it ...
Jul 13, 2022 · One of “Desperate Characters”’ most admired qualities is Fox’s ability to write about that chaos in such unfailingly controlled, elegant and lucid prose.
Mar 30, 2015 · 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.
- Paula Fox
Desperate Characters is a 1971 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox.
One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels One of the New York Times ' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 'A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved.' —David Foster Wallace , Desperate Characters, Paula Fox, Jonathan Franzen, 9780393351101
