Book description
By the time he was twenty-three, Michael Davenport had learned to
trust his own scepticism...
Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is a
minor poet 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, tenderly ironic
chronicler of the 'American Dream' and its casualties.
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.
