Richard Yates

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This classic story collection from the renowned author of Revolutionary Roadpresents eleven tales of Americans adrift in the mid-twentieth century.

First published in 1962, Eleven Kinds of Lonelinessshowcases the piercing eye for telling detail and profound insight into human turmoil that have become Richard Yates's signature. The New York Times Book Reviewhailed it as "the New York equivalent of Dubliners."

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 twentieth century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466853683
• Artikelnr.: 41351585

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

The most perceptive author of the twentieth century The Times