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Desperate Characters

Name: Desperate Characters
Author: Paula Fox
ISBN: 9780393342123

Paula Fox, 1970

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Paula Fox's 1970 novel follows a childless Brooklyn couple through a long weekend after a stray cat bites the wife. It went out of print more than once, and Jonathan Franzen's essay in Harper's is credited with bringing it back for a 1999 Norton reissue. Joe rings it up and starts a relationship that goes about as well as the Bentwoods' marriage.

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Paula Fox's 1970 novel follows a childless Brooklyn couple through a long weekend after a stray cat bites the wife. It went out of print more than once, and Jonathan Franzen's essay in Harper's is credited with bringing it back for a 1999 Norton reissue. Joe rings it up and starts a relationship that goes about as well as the Bentwoods' marriage.

Sources: All the Books from You Season 1, For Reading Addicts · All the Literary References in Netflix's You, Book Riot

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