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Richard Yates, one of the great unsung American writers, specialized in the anguish of ordinary people who are defeated by life. This collection of 27 stories includes seven unpublished ones as well as stories from his previous volumes. It includes an affectionate introduction by Richard Russo. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...Yates's own distinctive virtues as a writer [are] his plainspoken prose, his feel for contemporary alienation, his ability to make the reader both empathize with his characters and understand the depth of their self-deception....[T]he compressed nature of the short story tends to heighten the depressive, claustrophobic mood of these tales...."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (04/17/2001)
"Yates' stories are unflinching and uncompromising, complex at the same time they seem to unfold naturally and simply. Once you've read him, you wouldn't mistake his voice or the way he structures a story: the music, the images, the deceptive matter-of-factness with which the characters lead their lives...."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Ann Beattie (05/06/2001)
"Like many writers, Yates felt compelled to rewrite traumatic experiences. What is unusual and dismaying in his work is the compulsion to repeat them again and again, in strikingly similar terms....Read in isolation, many of these powerful stories justify the comparisons made by his admirers: most pertinently, to John Cheever and Raymond Carver (Yates falls somewhere in between). But when Yates's stories are encountered en masse...the uniformity of experience described begins to chafe, and his limited repertoire of stylistic gestures becomes apparent."
London Review of Books - Theo Tait (02/06/2003)
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