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"Revolutionary Road", "The Easter Parade", "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness"
Richard Yates
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Description for "Revolutionary Road", "The Easter Parade", "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness"
Hardcover. Written by the author who 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, ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 134 x 39. Weight in Grams: 706.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
696
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841593173
SKU
V9781841593173
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Ref
99-98
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for "Revolutionary Road", "The Easter Parade", "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness"
Revolutionary Road: The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald
Nick Hornby
Guardian Books of the Year
Yates is a master
Sebastian Faulks
Nick Hornby
Guardian Books of the Year
Yates is a master
Sebastian Faulks