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This collection of short stories sees Yates cast his compassionate eye over 11 unrelenting but flawless portraits of human frailty and resilience. He creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, an era when the American dream was finally coming true but also starting to ring a little hollow.
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 immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true – and just beginning to ring a little hollow.
| Weight | 0.172 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.8 × 1.5 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 220 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Short stories |
| Dewey | 813.54 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |