‘The Truth of Life’: Paula Fox on the Re- (Re-) Release of Her 1970 Novel By Sari Botton Feature Sari Botton talks to Paula Fox about Fox’s 1970 novel “Desperate Characters.”
Desperate Characters By Sari Botton Feature An excerpt from the 1970 novel by Paula Fox: Status-conscious Sophie and Otto Bentwood attend a dinner party in Brooklyn Heights in the late sixties, shortly after Sophie sustains a bite on her hand from a stray cat.