Synopses & Reviews
Three classic works—including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road, soon to be a major motion picture—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates’s first novel, Revolutionary Road is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents’ divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.
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Synopsis
Three classic works--including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.
Richard Yates's first novel, Revolutionary Road is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents' divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.
Synopsis
Three classic works--including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master It is Yates's relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
Richard Yates's first novel, National Book Award finalist Revolutionary Road, is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents' divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.
Synopsis
This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library.
Titles included:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
Revolutionary Road; The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
About the Author
Richard Yates, born in 1926, was praised as the foremost novelist of the postwar “age of anxiety.” He died in 1992.
Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Lush Life.