Name: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780312420819

Richard Yates

Gathers the distinguished late author's most current tales of short fiction in a single, comprehensive volume. By the author of Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence, Disturbing the Peace, and The Easter Parade. Reprint.

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

A literary event of the highest order, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yates's peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time. Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America's postwar generation, and his work has inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, André Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This collection, as powerful as Yate's beloved Revolutionary Road, contains the stories of his classic works Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (a book The New York Times Book Review hailed as "the New York equivalent of Dubliners") and Liars in Love; it also features nine new stories, seven of which have never been published. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers, the grim humor that atts life on a tuberculosis ward, or the moments of terrified peace experienced by American soldiers in World War II, Yates examines every frayed corner of the American dream. His stories, as empathetic as they are unforgiving, are like no others in our nation's literature. Published with a moving introduction by the novelist Richard Russo, this collection will stand as its author's final masterpiece.

Melody Izard

I read this right after finishing the biography of Richard Yates. The stories in the collection all contain an element of autobiography. Yates life stories bubble forth in a sort of twilight zone style. My only complaint is that they do become a bit repetitive.