Book description
Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate
and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. 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. 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.
