Collected Stories

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 Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives! the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions! Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour. Zusammenfassung Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.

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Yates was the most perceptive American writer of the twentieth century The Times

Product details

• Authors: Richard Yates, Yates Richard
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780099518549
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951854-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 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