Young Hearts Crying

by Richard Yates
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In this moving novel, Richard Yates once again proves his skill as the chronicler of the 'American Dream' and all its casualties

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By the time he was twenty-three, Michael Davenport had learned to trust his own scepticism...Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is a minor poet trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife Lucy has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of what is expected of her. All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier.In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme, tenderly ironic chronicler of the ‘American Dream’ and its casualties.

Editorial Reviews

"A wonderful writer with a merciless eye" - Time Out

"Bad couples, sad, sour marriages, young hopes corroded by suburban life... These are bitterly perceptive books" - New Statesman

"Yates is a truthful and ruthless writer. He intends to spare his readers nothing" - Guardian

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