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  • Published: 15 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841593173
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 696
  • RRP: $39.99

Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness



One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century' Sunday Telegraph

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.

  • Published: 15 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9781841593173
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 696
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Richard Yates

Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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Praise for Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Revolutionary Road: The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald

Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year

Yates is a master

Sebastian Faulks