THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES

Yates, Richard

ISBN 10: 0805066934 / ISBN 13: 9780805066937

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2001

About this Item

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accommplished writers of America's postwar WWII generation. The publication of this book is a literary event of the highest order for it provides us for the first time, in a single volume, the peerless short fiction of Richard Yates. This collection is introduced by Richard Russo. The book is in excellent condition with only a few minor wrinkles to DJ along edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805066934
• ISBN 13: 9780805066937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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 accomplished writers of America's postwar generation, and his work has inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, André Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This collection, as powerful as Yate's beloved Revolutionary Road, contains the stories of his classic works Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (a book The New York Times Book Review hailed as "the New York equivalent of Dubliners") and Liars in Love; it also features nine new stories, seven of which have never been published.

Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers, the grim humor that atts life on a tuberculosis ward, or the moments of terrified peace experienced by American soldiers in World War II, Yates examines every frayed corner of the American dream. His 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.

About the Author

Richard Yates was 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. He died in 1992.