02354cam a2200469 i 4500 4174467 BJBSDDR 20260730130556.0 ta 791029s1999 nyu 000 1 eng 79090373 9780393351101 (pbk.) 0393351106 (pbk.) 4174467 DLC DLC DLC eng eng n-us-ny PS 3556 F793d 1999 813/.5/4 Fox, Paula, 1923-2017 48383 Desperate characters : a novel / by Paula Fox ; with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen. New York, N.Y. ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. 190 pages ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Norton paperback fiction The 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. First 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." City and town life New York (State) New York Fiction. Married women New York (State) New York Fiction. Novela estadounidense 201 Novela psicológica 18654 Literatura estadounidense 1025 Psychological fiction. lcsh Domestic fiction. lcsh Franzen, Jonathan 49257 7 cbc orignew 1 opcn 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 127048 127048 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-05-11 0 PS 3556 F793d 1999 00000199069 2026-05-11 13:47:00 1 2026-05-11 BK