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Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Disturbing the Peace

The Easter Parade

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

A Special Providence

Young Hearts Crying

Cold Spring Harbor

Revolutionary Road

A Good School

Liars in Love

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Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance.

Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist

Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep

The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer

One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century

Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master

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.

A beautiful collection of Yates's most extraordinary short stories

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.

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Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance.

Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist

Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep

The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer

One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century

Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master

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