Böcker av Paula Fox

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.

First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel 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" and "The Great Gatsby".

In 1941, 23-year-old Helen Bynum leaves rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an ageing actress in New Orleans. There Helen finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, and friendship and risk.