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Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream

Author : Jennifer Daly
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668256
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream written by Jennifer Daly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a "writer's writer" but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firmly rooted in the zeitgeist of 1950s, his work remains startlingly relevant, addressing themes of American identity, the nature of marriage and relationships between men and women, and what it means to get ahead in a society entranced by a flawed American Dream. This collection of new essays is the first to focus on this under-appreciated author. It opens up his body of work for a new generation of readers, and positions Yates as a writer of significance in the American tradition.

Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream

Author : Jennifer Daly
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629579
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream written by Jennifer Daly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a "writer's writer" but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firmly rooted in the zeitgeist of 1950s, his work remains startlingly relevant, addressing themes of American identity, the nature of marriage and relationships between men and women, and what it means to get ahead in a society entranced by a flawed American Dream. This collection of new essays is the first to focus on this under-appreciated author. It opens up his body of work for a new generation of readers, and positions Yates as a writer of significance in the American tradition.

Revolutionary Road

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375708448
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Road written by Richard Yates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Young Hearts Crying

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307772659
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Young Hearts Crying written by Richard Yates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.

The Easter Parade

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466853662
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Easter Parade written by Richard Yates and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.

Contested Terrain

Author : Keith Wilhite
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388585
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Contested Terrain written by Keith Wilhite and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.

Marilynne Robinson

Author : Rachel Sykes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134675
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Marilynne Robinson written by Rachel Sykes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson’s growing critical reputation, pointing to new and exciting links between the author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fictional, educational, and theoretical work. Introduced by a critical discussion from Professors Bridget Bennett, Sarah Churchwell, and Richard King, Marilynne Robinson features analysis from a range of international academics, and explores debates in race, gender, environment, critical theory, and more, to suggest new and innovative readings of her work.

“All-Electric” Narratives

Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501367366
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book “All-Electric” Narratives written by Rachele Dini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies “All-Electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the “all-electric” home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to “give back” time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or “return” them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466853689
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Eleven Kinds of Loneliness written by Richard Yates and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true—and just beginning to ring a little hollow. In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, you'll discover some of the most influential and sharply observed short fiction of the 20th century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

Revolutionary Road

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307456277
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Road written by Richard Yates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Disturbing the Peace

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446420663
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing the Peace written by Richard Yates and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home...

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446420817
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Stories of Richard Yates written by Richard Yates and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Stoner

Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179285
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Stoner written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--

The Moviegoer

Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216251
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Moviegoer written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from the falseness of his life. With Mardi Gras in full swing, Binx, along with his cousin Kate, sets out to find his true purpose amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant yet powerful, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of modern values, and an unforgettable story of a week that will change two lives forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Walker Percy including rare photos from the author’s estate.

A Tragic Honesty

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423759
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book A Tragic Honesty written by Blake Bailey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascinating lens into mid-century America, a world of would-be artists, depressed housewives, addled businessmen, high living, wistful striving, and self-deception. The story of Richard Yates here stands as a singular reminder of what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.

Liars in Love

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466853697
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Liars in Love written by Richard Yates and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in eBook for the first time, Richard Yates's groundbreaking collection of short fiction. The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces in this collection showcase Richard Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and his understanding of human frailty. In this collection, you'll discover some of the most influential and sharply observed short fiction of the 20th century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

Young Hearts Crying

Author : Richard Yates
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099518643
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Young Hearts Crying written by Richard Yates and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is 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 chronicler of the American Dream and its casualties.