Cold Spring Harbor

Informationen zum Autor Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade , and Disturbing the Peace , and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love . He died in 1992. Klappentext A reissue of Yates' exploration of youth and self delusion, first published in 1986. Yates's "Revolutionary Road" is currently being made into a film starring Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio. Zusammenfassung Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. However, after their swift marriage, things don't work out quite as planned and the stresses of living with Rachel's family, in their shared house in Cold Spring Harbor, begin to take their toll on the new couple.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Yates, Yates Richard
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780099518532
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951853-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Long Island, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century