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Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York. His father was an electric light salesman and his mother was an aspiring sculptress. Yates’s first novel, Revolutionary Road(1961) was nominated, alongside Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and J.D Salinger’s Franny and Zooey for the National Book Award. Although Yates initially enjoyed critical acclaim, over the following decades his work was neglected and Yates sank into alcoholism. By his death in 1992, all his books were out of print. However, recently enthusiasm for his work has been resurrected. This is in part down to his work being championed by a group of authors which including Nick Hornby, Kate Atkinson, David Hare and Kurt Vonnegut.

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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

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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 clarity,...

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

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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 love affairs...

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

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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...