02117cam a2200409 i 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160070003000330080041000360100017000770200025000940200022001190350012001410400023001530410008001760430012001840500024001960820013002201000028002332450096002612600063003573000025004203360026004453370028004713380027004994900029005265000609005555200261011646500061014256500056014866500026015426500025015686500030015936550033016236550028016567000023016844174467BJBSDDR20260730130556.0ta791029s1999    nyu           000 1 eng    a   79090373   a9780393351101 (pbk.)  a0393351106 (pbk.)  a4174467  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng  aeng  an-us-ny14aPS 3556bF793d 199900a813/.5/41 aFox, Paula, d1923-201710aDesperate characters :ba novel /cby Paula Fox ; with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.  aNew York, N.Y. ; aLondon :bW.W. Norton & Company,c1999.  a190 pages ; c21 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aNorton paperback fiction  aThe Gerald Peary Collection consists of approximately 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books on which feature films were based and represents over thirty years of research and collecting. Collector/scholar Gerald Peary taught film studies for thirty-five years at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. The author of nine books and writer-director of three feature documentaries, he served on film festival juries around the world and wrote on film for many publications including The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and The Los Angeles Times.
Signed by author.  aFirst 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." 0aCity and town lifezNew York (State)zNew YorkxFiction. 0aMarried womenzNew York (State)zNew YorkxFiction. 4aNovela estadounidense 4aNovela psicológica 4aLiteratura estadounidense 7aPsychological fiction.2lcsh 7aDomestic fiction.2lcsh1 aFranzen, Jonathan