Book description
All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed
at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles...
In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and
his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents.
But as they discover, families exert a hold as tight as fate, and
every way out only ends up back home.
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
