A mesmerising collection of stories from the superb Richard Yates
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.
The most perceptive author of the twentieth century
*The Times*
Yates 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 weep
*Guardian*
Yates created what is almost the New York equivalent of
Dubliners
*New York Times*
Eloquent and powerful... Wryly funny even when he's quietly tearing
your heart out
*Harper's*
Extravagantly 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
*Esquire*
The stories are sharply focused, beautifully written and powerfully
moving. I know of no collection like it. Deservedly it has become a
classic
*Ann Beattie*
Yates is a master of the form
*Sebastian Faulks*
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