Description
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.
Contents:
Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern
The best of everything
Jody rolled the bones
No pain whatsoever
A glutton for punishment
A wrestler with sharks
Fun with a stranger
The B.A.R. man
A really good jazz piano
Out with the old
Builders
Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired
A natural girl
Trying out for the race
Liars in love
A compassionate leave
Regards at home
Saying goodbye to Sally
The canal
A clinical romance
Bells in the morning
Evening on the Cote d'Azur
Thieves
A private possession
The comptroller and the wild wind
A last fling, like
A convalescent ego.