{"product_id":"9780393351101","title":"Desperate Characters","description":"Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage—and a society—wrenching itself apart. First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters 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, The Great Gatsby, Miss Lonelyhearts, and Seize the Day.\"","brand":"Paula Fox, Jonathan Franzen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45770703667518,"sku":"9780393351101","price":341.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780393351101_3d5cf754-fc4a-4467-a3d3-58f97852b3d9.jpg?v=1707250922","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780393351101","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}