Eleven Types of Solitude (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Yates.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7532749193 ISBN 13: 9787532749195

Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2011

Synopsis

The author ofEleven Types of Solitude is famous 20th century American writer Richards Yates(1926-1992who is renowned for being the loyal recorder of the 20th century American mainstream life. World literary critics place him on a par with Chekhov,,Fitzgerald  and John Cheever. The book was written in 1962. The novel depicts New Yorkers life in the 50s and 60s after the Second World War. The author uses grave and stern writing style to describe eleven types of cosmopolitan solitude lifestyles. White color workers who are sacked from Manhattan office buildings, taxi drivers with exceptional imaginative power, young people who anxiously strive to become writers with contributions repeatedly met with frustrations, men and women who are about to tie the knot yet have a confused outlook on life, teachers with weird tempers, pupils who have transferred to another school, patients with TB, wives of the chronically ill, Jazz pianist, depressed military officers who can not achieve ambitions and retired army servicemen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 7532749193
• ISBN 13: 9787532749195
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• Number of pages: 245