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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers. Review:"A cause for celebration. Having these brilliant, unsettling, grimly funny, and downright heartbreaking stories gathered in one beautiful volume is a reader's dream come true. Richard Yates was, and still is, one of the great American masters of the written word, and if you don't believe me it's only because you haven't read this book." Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love and Waking the Dead Review:"Like Chekhov or William Maxwell, Richard Yates sees deep into the knotty hearts of his people, a rare talent that keeps his work fresh and essential....By uniting his award-winning stories with fine unpublished work like 'An Evening on the Côte d?Azur,' The Collected Stories reminds us how dangerous a writer Richard Yates is. No one should know this much about us." Stewart O?Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying Review:"Was there ever a writer who saw so clearly and depicted so faithfully the cracks in this broken world? Reading through the stories again, I was left as devastated as ever, but this time found a strange kind of charm in the way they, like the stories of that other poet of disappointment, John Cheever, conjure up the atmosphere, the trenchcoats and hi-fis, of a vanished world. I hope that this long-overdue collection will do for Richard Yates what that big red book did for Cheever twenty years ago — surprise us with the irrefutable proof of his genius and leave us feeling a little ashamed, perhaps, of being so taken by surprise." Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys Review:"Yates?s stories have too long been out of print, and as a result an entire generation of readers will be coming to Yates for the first time, and for such readers it is my special honor and pleasure to introduce the fictional world of these stories, to suggest how and why they work on us, and to speculate upon what sort of man would usher them into the world. I?m confident that these readers will not need me to tell them how great the stories are, or what a cause for celebration it is that they are finally restored to print, or that no one who pretends interest in American literature, or in the history of the contemporary short story, can afford to be without them." Richard Russo, from his Introduction Review:"These stringent, ruthlessly straightforward (yet never, thank God, 'minimalist') stories are set mostly in the late '40s and '50s, yet they're perfect reading for right now, when we're just starting to reacquaint ourselves with economic downturn and widespread economic anxiety, when our political discourse is insipid and our mass culture seems more vacuous than ever. In their measured, crystalline prose, Yates' stories make us ask how we ever expected so much in the first place." Maria Russo, Salon.com (read the entire Salon.com review) Review:"Yates's focus on human weakness and self-deceit never made him all that popular in his lifetime (1926-92), so it's a joy tempered with apprehension to see this unflinching volume in which people trick themselves into seeking what they don't want." The New York Times Book Review, Summer Reading 2001 selection About the AuthorRichard Yates was the author of the novels Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence, Disturbing the Peace, The Easter Parade, A Good School, Young Hearts Crying, and Cold Spring Harbor, as well as the short story collections Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Secret Hearts by Richard Russo From ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern The Best of Everything Jody Rolled the Bones No Pain Whatsoever A Glutton for Punishment A Wrestler with Sharks Fun with a Stranger The B.A.R. Man A Really Good Jazz Piano Out with the Old Builders From LIARS IN LOVE Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired A Natural Girl Trying Out for the Race Liars in Love A Compassionate Leave Regards at Home Saying Goodbye to Sally THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES The Canal A Clinical Romance Bells in the Moming Evening on the Cote d'Azur Thieves A Private Possession The Comptroller and the Wild Wind A Last Fling, Like A Convalescent Ego What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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