Richard Yates

The devastating effects of work, adultery, rebellion, and selfdeception slowly destroy the once successful marriage of Frank and April Wheeler, a suburban American couple. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Revolutionary Road

Stories explore the experiences and troubled relationships of middle class inhabitants of New York City, who struggle with their loneliness

Short Stories

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

By the author of Revolutionary Road, this is a story of two women struggling to overcome their past.

The Easter Parade

Set in a New England boarding school as America prepares to enter into World War II, an elegant and witty novel follows three unforgettable characters--William Grove, the quiet editor of the school newspaper, Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher, and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter. Reprint.

A Novel

A Good School

Gathers the distinguished late author's most current tales of short fiction in a single, comprehensive volume. By the author of Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence, Disturbing the Peace, and The Easter Parade. Reprint.

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Another masterpiece from the author of Revolutionary Road Michael Davenport, a minor poet, is an intensely ambitious young man - just old enough to have served in the US Air Force at the end of World War Two. Every failure he suffers in his efforts to become established as a professional writer weighs against the uneasy knowledge that his wife, Lucy, has an untapped private fortune amounting to millions of dollars. Lucy, for her part, always elegant but often shy, is never quite certain what is expected of her. And as a couple, the Davenports are repeatedly dismayed at meeting other people whose lives appear brighter and better than their own. In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme, tenderly ironic chronicler of the 'American Dream' and its casualties. [UNK] Revolutionary Road has sold over 20,000 copies [UNK] Revolutionary Road, Easter Parade, Collected Stories and Cold Spring Harbor available now [UNK] Originally published by Methuen in 1986 [UNK] 'Yates is good at bad couples, sad, sour marriages, young hopes corroded by suburban life...These are bitterly perceptive books, depressing but difficult to put down' Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman [UNK] 'Yates intends to spare his readers nothing. He is a truthful and ruthless writer' Robert Nye, Guardian [UNK] 'A natural story-teller' Nina Bawden, Daily Telegraph

Young Hearts Crying

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In a story set in postwar America, eighteen-year-old Robert Prentice struggles with a soul damaged by war, while his fifty-three-year-old mother endures thwarted dreams of prosperity. By the author of Revolutionary Road. Reprint.

A Special Providence

Disturbo della quiete pubblica

Hailed as “America's finest realistic novelist” by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life. Disturbing the Peace is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmerizing, it shines a brilliant, unwavering light into the darkest recesses of a man's psyche. To all appearances, John Wilder has all the trappings of success, circa 1960: a promising career in advertising, a loving family, a beautiful apartment, even a country home. John's evenings are spent with associates at quiet Manhattan lounges and his weekends with friends at glittering cocktail parties. But something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since gone wrong. Something has disturbed John's fragile peace, and he can no longer find solace in fleeting affairs or alcohol. The anger, the drinking, and the recklessness are building to a crescendo—and they're about to take down John's career and his family. What happens next will send John on a long, strange journey—at once tragic and inevitable.

Disturbing the Peace

When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the betrayal behind the dream, and desperately try every avenue of escape, only to find that all paths lead back to the small Long Island coastal town of Cold Spring Harbor, and to each other. But if there is no better chronicler than Yates of the quiet tragedy of thwarted suburban lives, Cold Spring Harbor is a testament to the absolute necessity of dreaming; for Yates's protagonists, hope may be all there is.

Cold Spring Harbour

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Once tipos de soledad es un conjunto de cuentos desoladores, descarnados y perfectos. Aquí no hay luz al final del túnel; hay en cambio tristeza, aislamiento y desamparo narrados con una honestidad salvaje y cristalina, electrizante y conmovedora, absolutamente memorable. La soledad de las ciudades, la mediocridad de las aspiraciones de clase media, la dificultad para verbalizar la decepción y el desencanto, la negación y el autoengaño son los temas que Yates toca, una y otra vez, en variaciones siempre resonantes al oído del lector contemporáneo. Sus personajes son personas comunes, de vidas rutinarias y tragedias menores: una chica que se está por casar, un veterano convaleciente, un escritor a sueldo, una maestra amargada, un soldado que rememora sus días de entrenamiento, un taxista con sueños de una vida mejor. Richard Yates publicó Once tipos de soledad en 1962, un año después de que Revolutionary Road, su primera novela, fuera elogiada por Tennessee Williams como "una obra maestra". Kurt Vonnegut lo describió como "el mejor conjunto de cuentos escrito por un norteamericano", y el New York Times lo llamó "el equivalente neoyorquino de Dublineses". El libro fue publicado en español por primera vez en 2002, cuando la escritora argentina Esther Cross lo tradujo para Emecé, y rápidamente se volvió inconseguible. Esta nueva edición, revisada por Cross, recupera la voz magistral de Yates con una claridad prodigiosa, e invita a los lectores a reencontrarse, o a conocer, a este autor clave de la literatura norteamericana que preludia —y enriquece— la tradición de Salinger, de Cheever, de Salter, de Ford.

Once tipos de soledad

With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth-Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to "pool their resources" and live together, with their children in 'Trying Out for the Race'. A young American soldier's too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn't seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in 'A Compassionate Leave'.The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and description. The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called 'Saying Goodbye to Sally', achieves a fitting conclusion for the book - and a resonant final statement of its theme.

Liars in Love

Easter parade

Sisters Emily and Sarah Grimes evolve into two very different women after their parents' divorce--Sarah is stable and settling into an unhappy marriage, and Emily is independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another, in a story about overcoming a tarnished family history. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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