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Desperate Characters

Name: Desperate Characters
Author: Paula Fox

by Paula Fox

1970•Drama•171 pages

Taste attributes: dramapsychologicalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricateenclosedemotive & stirringtroubled leadsself destruction/implosioncomplex relationship

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Boxlist takeRealistic and inventive: a heavy novel, slow-burning rather than fast. Best if you like surprises over comfort.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Open Library rating

4.4 / 5

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About This Book

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".

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

DramaPsychologicalTroubled leadsSelf destruction/implosionComplex relationship

Subjects

Married womenCity and town lifePsychological fictionDomestic fiction

Details

Author: Paula Fox
Published: 1970
Pages: 171
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Source: Open Library

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