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Richard Yates
Richard P. Moela was born in 1986 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The... show more



Richard P. Moela was born in 1986 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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Birth date: February 03, 1926
Died: November 07, 1992
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Lillelara
Lillelara rated it 7 years ago
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...
Lillelara
Lillelara rated it 7 years ago
I read Revolutionary Road for the first time last year and I was deeply impressed by it. It´s a harsh and devastating look on a dysfunctional marriage and on the lives of two people, who blame each other for their own shortcomings. If you are searching for a book that feels like a gut punch while re...
All about me
All about me rated it 7 years ago
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...
All about me
All about me rated it 8 years ago
What a book! In 338 pages Yates dismantled the myth of consumerism and conformity with the family as the functional unit propagating both of these 'values'. Not everyone is happy living out a stereotype and most of society's stereotypes don't fit most of us most of the time anyway. It also skewered ...
I Live in Many Worlds
I Live in Many Worlds rated it 9 years ago
Wow... this book... this entire story... sums up what I've been feeling in my life for... years now. This story really has done something to me. It's difficult to describe because it's rather personal, but it really has moved me in a way where makes me question if I really am doing all I can... unde...
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