Book description
John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place
in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is
wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading
him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night,
something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he
isn't coming 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 died in 1992.
