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Richard Yates Up Close

Martin Naparsteck
Richard Yates Up Close Book PDF

Author : Martin Naparsteck
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786486465

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Richard Yates has been referred to as America's least known great writer. Today Yates is known primarily for the novel Revolutionary Road, considered by many critics as the greatest American novel of the second half of the twentieth century. This critical study examines the life and work of Yates by placing his body of work in both cultural and personal context. Topics covered include the writing of his major novels, homosexuality, his role as a critic, and his relationship with Hollywood. This text divulges new details about his life and offers a thorough analysis of unpublished materials from the Richard Yates archives at Boston University.

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375708442

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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

The Easter Parade

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853669

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The Easter Parade by Richard Yates Pdf

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.

Richard Yates

Tao Lin
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Author : Tao Lin
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935554158

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Richard Yates by Tao Lin Pdf

In a startling change of direction, cult favourite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerising yet. Named after the real-life writer Richard Yates, but, having nothing to do with him, Lin tracks the illicit affair between a very young writer and his underage lover. As the writer seeks to balance work and love, his young lover becomes ever more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative.

Young Hearts Crying

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772657

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Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates Pdf

The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.

A Good School

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853676

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A Good School by Richard Yates Pdf

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspaper; Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher; and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter, who falls in love with most celebrated boy in the class of 1943.

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853652

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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates Pdf

A literary event of the highest order, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yates's peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time. Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar generation, and his work has inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, André Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This collection, as powerful as Yate's beloved Revolutionary Road, contains the stories of his classic works Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (a book The New York Times Book Review hailed as "the New York equivalent of Dubliners") and Liars in Love; it also features nine new stories, seven of which have never been published. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers, the grim humor that attends life on a tuberculosis ward, or the moments of terrified peace experienced by American soldiers in World War II, Yates examines every frayed corner of the American dream. His stories, as empathetic as they are unforgiving, are like no others in our nation's literature. Published with a moving introduction by the novelist Richard Russo, this collection will stand as its author's final masterpiece.

Disturbing the Peace

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446420669

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Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates Pdf

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home...

A Tragic Honesty

Blake Bailey
A Tragic Honesty Book PDF

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Picador
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466848856

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A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Pdf

The first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. Classic novels such as Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade are incomparable chronicles of the quiet and not-so-quiet desperation of the American middle-class. Lonely housewives, addled businessmen, desperate career-girls and fearful boys and soldiers, Yates's America was a panorama of high living, self-doubt and self-deception. And in the tradition of other great realistic writers of his time (Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Cheever and Updike), Yates's fictional world mirrored his own. A manic-depressive alcoholic and unapologetic gentleman, his life was a hornets' nest of childhood ghosts, the horrors of war, money woes, and ebullient cocktailed evenings in New York, Hollywood, and the Riviera. A Tragic Honesty is a masterful evocation of a man who in many ways embodied the struggles of the Great American Writer in the latter half of the twentieth century. Fame and reward followed by heartbreak and obscurity, Richard Yates here stands for what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307456274

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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Liars in Love

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Picador
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853690

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Liars in Love by Richard Yates Pdf

Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces in this collection showcase Richard Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and his understanding of human frailty. In this collection, you'll discover some of the most influential and sharply observed short fiction of the 20th century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream

Jennifer Daly
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Author : Jennifer Daly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476629575

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Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream by Jennifer Daly Pdf

Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a "writer's writer" but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firmly rooted in the zeitgeist of 1950s, his work remains startlingly relevant, addressing themes of American identity, the nature of marriage and relationships between men and women, and what it means to get ahead in a society entranced by a flawed American Dream. This collection of new essays is the first to focus on this under-appreciated author. It opens up his body of work for a new generation of readers, and positions Yates as a writer of significance in the American tradition.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Richard Yates
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Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853683

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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates Pdf

Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. 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. In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, you'll discover some of the most influential and sharply observed short fiction of the 20th century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

Speed Shrinking

Susan Shapiro
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Author : Susan Shapiro
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429935562

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Speed Shrinking by Susan Shapiro Pdf

"Proust had a cookie. Susan Shapiro has a cupcake—and a really hilarious book." —Patricia Marx, author of Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him In Susan Shapiro's laugh-out-loud funny fictional debut Speed Shrinking, Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her beloved psychoanalyst moves away at the same time her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend gets married and moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food, becomes a cupcake addict, and blimps out. This is a huge problem—especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Navigating her insurance network, Julia desperately sees eight shrinks in eight days, speed-dating for Dr. Replacement—or any other new guru—to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up.

Dismembering the American Dream

Kate Charlton-Jones
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Author : Kate Charlton-Jones
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817318253

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Dismembering the American Dream by Kate Charlton-Jones Pdf

"A detailed study of Yates's novels and stories"-- Provided by publisher.