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In een Amerikaanse buitenwijk anno 1955 onderneemt een jong echtpaar een poging hun huwelijk uit het slop te halen..

De wederwaardigheden van twee Amerikaanse families aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een klein plaatsje op Long Island.

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.

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.

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. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.

Of the great champions, Jacques Anquetil, the first to win the Tour de France five times, remains the most mysterious. A prodigy, he burst upon the scene at 18 in the Grand Prix des Nations. Yet, perhaps more than any of cycling's legends, he protected his private life from public gaze. Richard Yates explores the enigma of this great French rider. schovat popis

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. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time.

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 haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.

With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.