A Special Providence

ISBN-13: 9780307455956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Richard Yates

Opis

Yates's second novel follows a young man, Robert Prentice, and his mother Alice, a sculptor. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable portrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even as life challenges them both.

Recenzje

"Like Breakfast At Tiffany's spliced with All Quiet On The Western Front. Impossible to paraphrase, wonderful to read." Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth

Soft-spoken in his prose and terrifyingly accurate in his dialogue, Yates renders his characters with such authenticity that you hardly realize what he's done.   The Boston Globe

"One of America's best-kept secrets.... Keenly insightful, brutally honest ... delivering a swift kick to the heart."  The Denver Post

Yates writes powerfully and enters completely and effortlessly into the lives of his characters.   The New York Times Book Review

O autorze

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.