Disturbing the Peace

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 John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home... Zusammenfassung John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Yates
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780099518556
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951855-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Relating to middle adulthood, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century