Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness. Richard Yates. Vintage Classics, 2008 (first published 1962).Yates&rsquo
Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness. Richard Yates. Vintage Classics, 2008 (first published 1962).Yates’s unflinchingly realistic stories explore loneliness, but they don’t neglect failure, cruelty, and heartbreak. Most of the stories feature men who have been disappointed, somehow, by their inability to fulfill the promise of their youth.“Yates is a realist par excellence, the natural heir to Hemingway’s pared-to-the-bones style and the antecedent of Carver’s flat minimalism. There is something else though: a kind of transparency, almost a translucency, that owes more to Fitzgerald, his great literary hero… Read and weep” – Kate Atkinson, Guardian -- source link
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