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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/04/2008
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ISBN: 9780099518570
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £9.99
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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 03/04/2008
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ISBN: 9780099518570
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"The most perceptive author of the twentieth century"
The Times
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"Yates is a realist par excellence, the natural heir to Hemingway's pared-to-the-bones style and the antecedent of Carver's flat minimalism. There is something else though: a kind of transparency, almost a translucency, that owes more to Fitzgerald, his great literary hero... Read and weep"
Kate Atkinson, Guardian
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"Yates created what is almost the New York equivalent of Dubliners"
New York Times
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"Eloquent and powerful... Wryly funny even when he's quietly tearing your heart out"
Harper's
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"Extravagantly gifted... Yates' eye and ear are unsurpassed; I know of no writer whose senses are in more admirable condition. It is they that make his characters live, make these stories move and beat - they, and the sure perfection of his writing"
Esquire
