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    <title>Desperate characters</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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    <namePart type="date">1923-2017</namePart>
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  <genre authority="lcsh">Psychological fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcsh">Domestic fiction.</genre>
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    <publisher>W.W. Norton &amp; Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued>
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    <extent>190 pages ;  21 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>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."</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Paula Fox ; with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.</note>
  <note>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.</note>
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