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 ...
The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road charts the lives of two sisters through hope, love and despair: “An eloquent, moving novel, quietly poignant” (Larry McMurtry, Washington Post). In The Easter Parade, first published ...
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 Engl...
A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life...
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 acclaime...
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 heartbreakin...
In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire....
This classic story collection from the renowned author of Revolutionary Road presents eleven tales of Americans adrift in the mid-twentieth century. First published in 1962, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness showcases the piercing eye fo...
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road, comes the story of a mother who struggles with her own demons while her son goes to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man."Like Break...
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...
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 complicati...