Cold Spring Harbor
by:
Richard Yates (author)
All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles...In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover,...
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All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles...In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover, families exert a hold as tight as fate, and every way out only ends up back home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099518532 (0099518538)
Publish date: February 7th 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Cold Spring Harbor may seem like a short novel (a little less than 200 pages long), but don't let that fool you. It's packed with so much story. More so than even some of the longest novels out there, if that makes any sense. That's because Yates is a master at creating gripping stories about ordina...
This treads similar territory to other Richard Yates novels, though it covers a shorter period, in fewer pages, focusing on younger protagonists. As always, more is conveyed by what is unsaid than what is actually uttered (e.g. the awkward driving lesson where nothing was taught and nothing learned)...
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