Desperate Characters
Product ID: 276690141
⭐4.2/5 star reader rating
📚Classic postwar American literature
🏙️Brooklyn neighborhood setting
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Description
📖 Unlock the secrets of a crumbling 'good life'—read the novel everyone’s quietly obsessed with.
- ENDURING RELEVANCE - A 50+ year-old novel that resonates powerfully with today’s social anxieties.
- CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED - Praised for masterful storytelling and deeply relatable characters.
- RICH SOCIAL COMMENTARY - Explores fragile modern life and societal fractures with razor-sharp insight.
- AUTHENTIC BROOKLYN VIBES - Immerse yourself in a vividly depicted changing urban neighborhood.
- TIMELESS LITERARY MASTERPIECE - Ranks alongside The Great Gatsby and Billy Budd, a must-have for discerning readers.
Desperate Characters, published by W W Norton Company, is a critically acclaimed 1970 novel set in Brooklyn that masterfully explores the unraveling of a marriage and society through vivid storytelling and social critique. With a 4.2-star rating from over 500 readers, it remains a timeless, relevant literary classic that captures the fragility of modern aspirations.
Specifications
| Best Sellers Rank | #135,583 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,062 in U.S. Literature #8,941 in Literary Fiction #14,361 in Genre Fiction |
| Customer reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (548) |
| Dimensions | 13.97 x 1.78 x 21.08 cm |
| Edition | Reissue |
| ISBN-10 | 0393351106 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0393351101 |
| Item weight | 1.05 Kilograms |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 192 pages |
| Publication date | 30 March 2015 |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
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