Liars in Love

by Richard Yates
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This collection of Richard Yates's acclaimed short stories is available for the first time in paperback.

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  • Liars in Love Paperback ISBN: 9780099518594 Published: 15/05/2008 Imprint: Vintage Classics Extent: 288 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP
  • Liars in Love EBook ISBN: 9781446420690 Published: 01/02/2011 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 288 pages Subject: Classics $12.95 RRP Buy Now

Synopsis

With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth:Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to “pool their resources” and live together, with their children in 'Trying Out for the Race'. A young American soldier’s too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn’t seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in 'A Compassionate Leave'.The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and description. The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called 'Saying Goodbye to Sally', achieves a fitting conclusion for the book – and a resonant final statement of its theme.

Editorial Reviews

"Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance." - Saturday Review

"Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist" - The Boston Globe

"Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep" - Kate Atkinson

"The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer" - The Times

"One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century" - Sunday Telegraph

"Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master" - Kurt Vonnegut

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