Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Softcover

Yates, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679722211 ISBN 13: 9780679722212

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1989

Synopsis

Stories explore the experiences and troubled relationships of middle class inhabitants of New York City, who struggle with their loneliness

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"The most perceptive author of the twentieth century" * The Times * "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 * "Yates created what is almost the New York equivalent of Dubliners" * New York Times * "Eloquent and powerful... Wryly funny even when he's quietly tearing your heart out" * Harper's * "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 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0679722211
• ISBN 13: 9780679722212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230