Paula Fox wrote literary fiction for adults and children, often concentrating on families strained by money, illness, class and the inability to say what matters directly. Desperate Characters follows Sophie and Otto Bentwood through a few uneasy days in Brooklyn after a cat bite and a series of small disturbances expose deeper fractures in their marriage and social world. A Servant's Tale traces a Caribbean woman's life in service, while Borrowed Finery is Fox's memoir of a childhood passed among relatives, acquaintances and temporary homes. Her prose is spare, exact and psychologically controlled rather than plot-heavy. Fox suits readers of twentieth-century American literary fiction, domestic unease, family memoir and quietly severe character studies. Read more Less
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