Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
by:
Richard Yates (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099518570 (0099518570)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Americana,
New York,
Short Stories,
American Fiction
My plan is to read all of Richard Yates´ work in chronological order, so next up after Revolutionary Road has been his first short story collection. And as always with short story collections, it has been a mixed bag for me. The main theme of this collection is loneliness in 1950s America in all i...
This isn't a book you really enjoy, but rather one you admire and secretly identify with in odd, personal and idiosyncratic ways. Most of the characters, their loneliness stems from their own self-loathing and lack of agency in their particular situations. This is most often the source of loneliness...
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