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A Special Providence by Richard Yates
Category: Fiction
Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of ...Show more
DISTURBING THE PEACE by YATES, RICHARD
Category: Classics
John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John sn ...Show more
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Category: Classics
This Orange Inheritance Edition of "Revolutionary Road" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classics" aske ...Show more
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Category: Fiction
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, "Revolutionary Road" is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and ...Show more
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Category: Classics
"Film opens in NZ - 22 January 2009 - major release Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just r ...Show more
Revolutionary Road, the Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Everyman's Library HB) by Richard Yates
Category: Classics
"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 prete ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by YATES, RICHARD
Category: Classics
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 preten ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
Category: Fiction
Now in paperback, Yates' short fiction is collected in a single volume, featuring the stories of his classic works Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love, plus nine new stories.
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Category: Classics
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her ...Show more
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