Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America’s post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.

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"Revolutionary Road: The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald" - Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year

"Yates is a master" - Sebastian Faulks

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Richard Yates Books

Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
CHOSEN BY LIONEL SHRIVER AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE READ
Disturbing the Peace
by Richard Yates
‘One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century’ Sunday Telegraph
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
by Richard Yates
‘One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century’ Sunday Telegraph

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