The Wallpaper Fox

By Morris Philipson

Book Overview

Written with razor-sharp wit and keen psychological insight, this compelling novel explores the way people--husbands, wives, parents, children, lovers--use and abuse each other. Under the meticulously maintained social conventions of the wealthy Warner family lie more primitive impulses and desires. As each character faces a crisis, we start to see the fascinating ways in which they make moral choices.

"Philipson gives us a very believable portrait of a marriage. He also gives us no easy answers . . . and best of all, real storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"This solid and serious novel emerges as not just an expose of what really goes on behind the well-groomed facades of the affluent, but a thoughtful exploration of character and the efficacy of moral action in forming and reforming it." --Jane Larkin Crain, New York Times Book Review

"A swift, no-fudging narrative by a writer it is always rewarding to rediscover." --Sophie Wilkins, National Review

"An extraordinary novel, fascinating, compelling, and totally disconcerting." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Has the drama, intelligence and moral force of an American Howards End."-Cynthia Ozick

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226667480
• ISBN13: 9780226667485
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"