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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Paperback)

by Richard Yates (Author), Richard Russo (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (2 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0413771261
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413771261
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 345,003 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author
Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Yates, not Richard and Judy, 14 Mar 2006
By John Self "www.theasylum.wordpress.com" (Belfast, NI) - See all my reviews
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This essential collection of stories by one of the great unsung American writers of the 20th century is sublime, and will give you so much pleasure over the course of your life that it could well end up being the best value book you've ever bought. It consists of Yates's two collections of stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love, together with some uncollected stories. You can read about Eleven Kinds of Loneliness elsewhere, as it's now available on its own, so I'll just give you a taste of the second half of this collection.

The stories in Liars in Love are longer than in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and, in an entirely unexpected turn for those accustomed to Yates's chronic despair, occasionally more optimistic. At least two of the stories - Regards at Home and Yates's longest story, the 44-pager Saying Goodbye to Sally - have tempered hope in their closing lines, as well as some actual jokes. And as always, the details and the dialogues are just so, every single mot precisely juste. The uncollected stories were a surprise, too - no leaden danglers here, scraped up off the bottom of the study drawer: the stories are shorter than most of the previously published ones, but no less achieved. We get to see elements of Yates's life that he hadn't previously cannibalized in novels and stories: such as wartime experiences (rendered with astonishing vigour and clarity in flashback in The Canal) and TB wards. There's a tiny four-pager, witty and brittle, in Bells in the Morning, and a rare first person narrative (Yates's only one, apart from Regards at Home?) in A Last Fling, Like. Finally, in The Comptroller and the Wild Wind, another tale of broken marriage and so much more, we find where Yates took the title for his novel Young Hearts Crying: a poem by James Joyce entitled Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba:

"I heard their young hearts crying
Loveward above the glancing oar
And heard the prairie grasses sighing:
No more, return no more!

O hearts, O sighing grasses,
Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!
No more will the wild wind that passes
Return, no more return."

So there's the last word, for now, on Richard Yates: he can quote Joyce in the middle of his own work and still not seem rubbish by comparison.

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4 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A large repertoire of stories, 20 Jul 2004
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Hardcover)
Mr Yates's stories deal with a variety of situations, most of which we as readers have experienced in life ourselves. There are the teenagers and their reluctance to accept the authority of their teachers or parents, the loss of freedom resulting from marriage, the pain people can feel, both physical and emotional, memories from childhood or the army. There are the inevitable haunted, vulnerable and dependent characters. In some short stories, writers appear, too: "Writers who write about writers can bring on the worst kind of miscarriage." writes one of them! There is the pleasure given to children by their father's visitation days, his hugs and their smells of linen, whisky and tobacco. In the stories collected under the title "Liars in Love", couples separating is a frequent - almost repetitive - topic. It seems to me that once you have reached a certain age and experience in life, Mr Yates's prose simply confirms your own feelings and seems, not downright commonplace, but lacking in originality. In this literary genre, it is my opinion that Raymond Carver, Nadine Gordimer or Jhumpa Lahiri are more enjoyable authors.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous Collection of Short Stories, 22 May 2009
By Muppet (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
I was in two minds as to whether or not to read this book (having read "Revolutionary Road" for a book group and finding it too dark for my liking).

This collection, whilst not exactly a selection of cheery and uplifting stories (!) are beautifully crafted vignettes of different aspects of post-war American life.

Like RR it deals with the "smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white collar despair of office workers ..." [from the cover notes of this edition] but unlike RR, each story has a nugget of hope (not necessarily a happy ending!) but that 'hope for the future' is something I couldn't discern in RR and was what made it too dark for me.

I sometimes feel somewhat shortchanged by short stories, but the ones in this book are so intricate and so full of detail that I felt fully sated after each one!
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