Book description
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. 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.
