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Otto Bentwood
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Sophie Bentwood
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Product details
- ISBN 9780007150380
- Weight: 130g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2003
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Great American Novel – from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage – and a society – wrenching itself apart.
Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
Paula Fox has written many books for children and five other novels, as well as the memoir Borrowed Finery. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
