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 Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. 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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Richard Yates

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• Autori: Richard Yates, Yates Richard
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 05.06.2008
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780099518549
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951854-9
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.1 cm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Categorie: Film, Roman, Comedy, New York, food, Brooklyn, Coming of age, young adult, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Relationships, America, Marriage, Short Stories, Fiction, Chick Lit, Americana, Writing, Friendship, Cozy, School, Race, Collection, Dutch, divorce, Jewish, families, Literary fiction, Short story collections, Novels, contemporary fiction, fiction books, books fiction, good books, short story anthology