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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

By Richard Yates, Richard Russo

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| Paperback | 9780312420819

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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, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates exContinue

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, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates examines every frayed corner of the American Dream. Yates's 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.AUTHORBIO: Richard Yates is the author of the novels Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence, Disturbing the Peace, The Easter Parade, A Good School, Young Hearts Crying, and Cold Spring Harbor, as well as the story collections Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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  • The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

    , and writers everywhere are breathing a little easier, at least for the moment. Why is Yates, who died in 1992, one of the best short story writers you've probably never read? Richard Yates is scary. Reading a Yates story is like having to face up t ... (read full critics)

    austinchronicle published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 496 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0312420811
  • ISBN-13: 9780312420819
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: May 03, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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