Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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 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. Zusammenfassung Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.

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Product details

• Authors: Richard Yates, Yates Richard
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2008
• EAN: 9780099518570
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951857-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Classic fiction: literary and general