by Paula Fox · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476697207
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In 'Desperate Characters', Paula Fox introduces us to Sophie and Otto, a bourgeois New York couple from the 1960s who seemingly have it all: a Mercedes, a house on Long Island, and a library full of classics. However, a seemingly minor incident, such as a stray cat bite, triggers a series of events that reveal the cracks in their marriage and the society around them. With ironic prose and keen observation of everyday details, Fox immerses us in the complexity of human relationships and the fragility of appearances. A novel that explores the characters' inability to understand the true essence of life and the collapse of an increasingly artificial society.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
