Desperate Characters (Paperback) by Paula Fox

from juhudo

Schönes Buch, präzise geschrieben. Die 50-iger Jahre lassen sich aber nicht abschütteln und man muss versuchen, sich in diese Zeit einzufühlen, was schwierig ist. Die Probleme eines Middle-Class-Ehepaars sind zwar vielleicht zeitlos, aber berühren nicht wirklich und man hat nicht das Gefühl aus d...

from AlisonY

This was a dark and foreboding read about a comfortably well-off New York couple and the seeping uncontrollable infiltration of the ugly side of the world into their lives. At the beginning the wife is bitten by a stray cat, and as the bite gets steadily worse she sees it as an ominous omen about...

from chrisblocker

There are books out there which are phenomenal examples of writing. Some of these books see the light of day, garner some attention, are even made into a respectable film, but they're forgotten all too quickly. They float away from the literary canon and are out-of-print before anyone notices. Su...

from alpin

Critically acclaimed when it was published in 1970 and then largely forgotten, this small, polished gem of a novel has been rediscovered. It follows a well-to-do, childless couple living in a renovated brownstone in not-yet-gentrified Brooklyn, beset by the intrusions of the neighborhood and by t...

from NativeRoses

A stray cat which might have rabies bites a woman in New York City. The lapidary prose of this slim novel brings the outcome into sharp relief in a manner which relates to us all. Rarely do authors craft their prose so brilliantly. (Don Delillo and David Foster Wallace come to mind.) When i finis...