First published in 1962,a year after Revolutionary Road,this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. 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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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099518570Number of pages: 240Weight: 170 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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The most perceptive author of the twentieth centuryYates is a realist par excellence,the natural heir to Hemingway's pared-to-the-bones style and the antecedent of Carver's flat minimalism. There is something else though: a kind of transparency,almost a translucency,that owes more to Fitzgerald,his great literary hero... Read and weepYates created what is almost the New York equivalent of DublinersEloquent and powerful... Wryly funny even when he's quietly tearing your heart outExtravagantly gifted... Yates'eye and ear are unsurpassed; I know of no writer whose senses are in more admirable condition. It is they that make his characters live,make these stories move and beat - they,and the sure perfection of his writing
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