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Bailey, Blake
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Fiction
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2010
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en-ca
โ 464 KB
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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
โ Scribed by Bailey, Blake
- Book ID
- 107822308
- Publisher
- Picador
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 550 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0312287216
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โฆ Synopsis
The first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates
Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. Classic novels such as Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade are incomparable chronicles of the quiet and not-so-quiet desperation of the American middle-class. Lonely housewives, addled businessmen, desperate career-girls and fearful boys and soldiers, Yates's America was a panorama of high living, self-doubt and self-deception. And in the tradition of other great realistic writers of his time (Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Cheever and Updike), Yates's fictional world mirrored his own. A manic-depressive alcoholic and unapologetic gentleman, his life was a hornets' nest of childhood ghosts, the horrors of war, money woes, and ebullient cocktailed evenings in...
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