Desperate Characters
“Brilliant…. Fox is one of the most attractive writers to come our way in a long, long time.”
—The New Yorker
“A towering landmark of postwar realism…. A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine that it seems less written than carved.”
—David Foster Wallace
The Widow’s Children
“Chekhovian…. Every line of Fox’s story, every gesture of her characters, is alive and surprising.”
—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
“Paula Fox is so good a novelist that one wants to go out in the street to hustle up a big audience for her.”
—Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek