Richard Yates fue un novelista estadounidense celebrado por su agudo realismo y su magistral retrato de las desilusiones del sueño americano. Su obra temprana, en particular su novela debut, fue recibida con aclamación, estableciéndolo como una nueva voz importante. Yates exploró temas de desintegración familiar, declive social y vacío interior con profunda perspicacia. A pesar de los cambiantes rumbos literarios, se mantuvo fiel a sus raíces realistas, inspirándose en maestros como Flaubert y Chéjov. Sus novelas continúan resonando, experimentando un resurgimiento póstumo por su examen audaz y atemporal de la condición humana.
Los años cincuenta retratados por Richard Yates tienen demasiados parentescos con los tiempos que vivimos. El aislamiento que nace de la comodidad. La pérdida, muchas veces inconsciente, de valores que en algún momento parecían fundamentales. Brillantes, bellos y confundidos, Frank y April Wheeler tratan de sostener sus ideas incluso contra sí mismos y sus debilidades.
The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers.
Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white- collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
Three classic works--including the virtuosic "Revolutionary Road, "soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.Richard Yates's first novel, "Revolutionary Road "is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In "The Easter Parade, "he tells the story of two sisters whose parents' divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, "we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.
Of the great champions, Jacques Anquetil, the first to win the Tour de France five times, remains the most mysterious. A prodigy, he burst upon the scene at 18 in the Grand Prix des Nations. Yet, perhaps more than any of cycling's legends, he protected his private life from public gaze. Richard Yates explores the enigma of this great French rider. schovat popis
Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time.
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.
With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.
Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of what is expected of her. All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier. In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme chronicler of the American Dream and its casualties.