Richard Yates: 25 books

A literary event of the highest order, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yates's peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time. Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar...

Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters,...

Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. 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...

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad...

Richard Yates è considerato dalla critica uno dei grandi classici del Novecento letterario. Nei suoi libri ha saputo rappresentare come pochi altri le ombre del Sogno Americano, ispirando generazioni intere di scrittori e dando vita al «realismo sporco» di Raymond Carver e Richard Ford. Il suo...

Alice ist überzeugt, das Leben halte etwas ganz Besonderes für sie und ihren Sohn Robert bereit – als Künstlerin wird sie Anerkennung finden und ihr Bobby die Privatschule abschließen. Doch wie so oft kommt alles ganz anders als geplant… Richard Yates, ein Meister der klaren Worte,...

Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own...

«Se nella letteratura americana moderna ci vuole qualcos’altro per fare un capolavoro, non saprei dire cosa»: questo il giudizio di Tennessee Williams su Revolutionary Road, uno dei classici dimenticati della narrativa americana del secondo Novecento, che minimum fax è orgogliosa di riportare...

Hailed as “America’s finest realistic novelist” by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life*.* Disturbing the Peace is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmerizing,...

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet...

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on...

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily...

La giovane moglie di un professore universitario, due bambini figli di madri divorziate, un'impulsiva prostituta londinese, un soldato in licenza a Parigi, una scultrice che sogna fama e gloria, un impiegato che aspira a una vita libera, uno scrittore in trasferta a Hollywood: da questi personaggi...

Bobby è un giovane soldato che cerca di barcamenarsi sui campi di battaglia della seconda guerra mondiale; non si è rivelato l’eroico guerriero che immaginava di essere, e la sua esperienza è fatta solo di paura e confusione. A casa lo aspetta la madre, Alice, che ripone in lui tutte le sue speranze...