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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Genialnie ukazany rozpad małżeństwa, rozpaczliwe próby znalezienia jakiś wspólnych celów przez dwoje ludzi, którzy po latach zdali sobie sprawę, że nic ich już nie łączy. I zderzenie z rzeczywistością, że niczym nie różnią się od pogardzanych przez nich nudnych małżeństw z przedmieść. Gorąco polecam...
Małżeństwo z dwójką dzieci. Dwoje ludzi, którzy niegdyś byli w sobie szaleńczo zakochani. Teraz popadli w tak znaną wszystkim parom z dłuższym stażem rutynę. Dla Franka każdy kolejny dzień spędzony w pracy (za którą nie przepada) jest takim samym dniem. Każdy powrót do domu jest też taki sam.Jego żo...
A Special Providence by Richard Yates is once again another fine offering from a master of slice-of-life storytelling. He paints pictures of harsh realities with words, and there are very few out there that can top him. While this may not have been as good as The Easter Parade or Cold Spring Harbor,...
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...
Yates was a master at creating terribly flawed characters. They say and do things we don't like, yet we can't help but watch them through their stories of heartbreak, adultery, alcoholism, and nervous breakdowns. This is because Yates isn't simply creating characters, but more portraits of real genu...
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