New Releases by Richard Yates

Once tipos de soledad es un conjunto de cuentos desoladores, descarnados y perfectos. Aquí no hay luz al final del túnel; hay en cambio tristeza, aislamiento y desamparo narrados con una honestidad salvaje y cristalina, electrizante y conmovedora, absolutamente memorable. La soledad de las ciudades, la mediocridad de las aspiraciones de clase media, la dificultad para verbalizar la decepción y el desencanto, la negación y el autoengaño son los temas que Yates toca, una y otra vez, en variaciones siempre resonantes al oído del lector contemporáneo. Sus personajes son personas comunes, de vidas rutinarias y tragedias menores: una chica que se está por casar, un veterano convaleciente, un escritor a sueldo, una maestra amargada, un soldado que rememora sus días de entrenamiento, un taxista con sueños de una vida mejor. Richard Yates publicó Once tipos de soledad en 1962, un año después de que Revolutionary Road, su primera novela, fuera elogiada por Tennessee Williams como "una obra maestra". Kurt Vonnegut lo describió como "el mejor conjunto de cuentos escrito por un norteamericano", y el New York Times lo llamó "el equivalente neoyorquino de Dublineses". El libro fue publicado en español por primera vez en 2002, cuando la escritora argentina Esther Cross lo tradujo para Emecé, y rápidamente se volvió inconseguible. Esta nueva edición, revisada por Cross, recupera la voz magistral de Yates con una claridad prodigiosa, e invita a los lectores a reencontrarse, o a conocer, a este autor clave de la literatura norteamericana que preludia —y enriquece— la tradición de Salinger, de Cheever, de Salter, de Ford.

Peu d''écrivains ont su, à l''instar de Richard Yates, décrire les vies des couples de l''Amérique moyenne ; il le fait ici dans une prose dépouillée : on se croirait dans un tableau de Hopper, où le vide l''emporte sur les personnages. Yates nous entraîne sur les pas d''Evan Shepard, fils d''un officier de marine en retraite et d''une mère neurasthénique. Beau mais faible, Evan se marie trop jeune avec une fille de sa classe qu''il a mise enceinte. Quand le couple se sépare, le père d''Evan croit nécessaire d''intervenir dans la vie de son fils et le jette dans les bras de la douce Rachel, fille de l''épuisante Gloria. Mal d''amour, alcool, déclarations de guerre réelle et symbolique... les désillusions collectives vont s''inviter dans une maison délabrée de Cold Spring où, lors de l''été 1942, les deux familles sont contraintes de cohabiter.

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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.

This classic story collection from the renowned author of Revolutionary Road presents eleven tales of Americans adrift in the mid-twentieth century. First published in 1962, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness showcases the piercing eye for telling detail and profound insight into human turmoil that have become Richard Yates''s signature. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "the New York equivalent of Dubliners." 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 twentieth century, and find out why Richard Yates was a true American master.

Après les romans - La Fenêtre panoramique, Easter Parade et Un été à Cold Spring -, la publication de ce recueil de nouvelles permet de découvrir un autre versant du talent de Richard Yates ; toute la sensibilité du grand écrivain américain disparu en 1992 y éclate à chaque page. Son oeuvre est une sorte de «comédie humaine» sur le mode intimiste. Qu''il mette en scène des femmes désireuses de gagner leur indépendance, de vivre la bohème, d''obtenir la reconnaissance sociale, ou des hommes en proie à la désillusion et à l''échec, c''est toujours avec une grande tendresse qu''il retrace les destinées de ces personnages de la middle class américaine. Pour être souvent crue, sinon cruelle, sa vérité est le plus souvent libératrice.

John C. Wilder is een succesvolle verkoper van advertentieruimte. Hij heeft een comfortabel huis buiten de stad, een liefhebbende vrouw en een zoon van tien jaar oud. Maar er is iets mis: zijn gezin interesseert hem niet langer, zijn buitenechtelijke affaires leiden nergens toe en hij grijpt steeds vaker naar de fles. Op een avond knapt er iets in zijn hoofd en belt hij zijn vrouw om te zeggen dat hij niet thuis komt. Wat hij niet weet is dat hij nog diezelfde nacht wordt opgenomen in een psychiatrische kliniek Een geval van ordeverstoring is Yates meest autobiografische boek, dat op weergaloze wijze de achterkant van de Amerikaanse droom belicht.

"Ein moderner Klassiker... ein fulminanter Roman." DIE ZEIT 1955, in einer Vorstadt nahe New York: Hinter dem gepflegten Vorgarten tobt ein Ehekrieg. Frank und April Wheeler, einst ein junges, hoffnungsfrohes und vielversprechendes Paar, drohen unter dem Druck der allgemeinen Erwartungen an eine glückliche Ehe und ein erfolgreiches Berufsleben zugrunde zu gehen. Harmlose Äußerungen entzünden sich zu Hasstiraden und steigern sich zu bedrohlicher Wortlosigkeit. Richard Yates’ Debütroman machte ihn in den USA schlagartig bekannt und sorgte auch in Deutschland dafür, dass Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors das Yates-Fieber ausbrach. »Das eindringliche Psychogramm einer Ehe, die von Beginn an den Virus des Scheiterns in sich trägt. (...) Eine Tragödie hinter pastellfarbenen Fassaden.« Brigitte

La novela en que se basó la aclamada película Revolutionary Road, con Kate Winslet y Leonardo DiCaprio. Los años 50 retratados por Richard Yates tienen demasiados parentescos con los tiempos que vivimos. El aislamiento que nace de la comodidad. La incomunicación que produce la falta de sentimientos sinceros. La pérdida, muchas veces inconsciente, de valores, que en algún momento parecían fundamentales. Brillantes, bellos y confundidos, Frank y April Wheeler tratan de sostener sus ideas incluso contra sí mismos y sus debilidades. Yates los examina con una lucidez que tiene mucho de tristeza en esta magnífica novela: una indagación profunda y conmovedora sobre lo que las personas dejan que la sociedad haga con ellas. Reseñas: «Una Madame Bovary habitando los pesadillescos suburbios del American Dream. Pocos libros tan tristes hicieron tan felices a sus lectores: obra maestra.» El País «Con Vía Revolucionaria, Richard Yates hace una entrada a toda orquesta en la literatura. Kurt Vonnegut y Raymond Carver lo elevaron a la categoría de escritor de culto.» Lire «Si Vía Revolucionaria no convierte a Yates en un escritor inmortal, la inmortalidad es algo que no vale la pena.» Times «Si se necesita algo más para realizar una obra maestra, no sé de qué se trata.» Tennessee Williams «Una tragedia doméstica que comienza con la vergüenza de una función de teatro amateur, culmina con el lamento por una muerte estúpida, y acaba siendo una novela de terror sin monstruos imposibles que la hagan soportable.» Rodrigo Fresán «Es El Gran Gatsby de mi época. No hay ningún gran escritor que yo conozca que no tenga a Yates por maestro.» Kurt Vonnegut «La excitación que uno experimenta al leer a Yates es la euforia que uno siente al encontrar, reconocer y abrazar a la verdad. ¿No es una verdad agradable? Lo siento mucho. El reconocernos en la ceguera, las necesidades, las soledades y hasta en la crueldad de los personajes de Yates tendrá que bastarnos.» Richard Russo «Lo que se destaca en Vía Revolucionaria -y en toda la obra de Richard Yates- es lo agudo de su visión, pero también el modo en que esa visión se detiene no en la Guerra o en otros horrores sino en la vida del hombre promedio. Compartimos los sueños y los temores de su gente: el amor y el éxito junto a la soledad y el fracaso y no la vida tal cual la define la publicidad.» Boston Review

The classical guitar is at its best with music of smaller proportions that is personal, evocative, and imbued with opportunities for subtle, expressive nuances in performance. Like the piano it must stitch together discrete and fading notes into continuous melodies supported by a harmonic background. the joining of Grieg''s music and the classical guitar seems to be a most obvious and fruitful endeavor. This collection presents transcriptions from Grieg''s best known and loved piano works. They are of intermediate to early advanced difficulty, with detailed fingering indications and extensive notes about the transcriptions and performance suggestions for each piece. This wonderful music, so easily and elegantly translated to the guitar, has previously been overlooked by most guitarists. These arrangements show that the results of the combination is better than might be expected. Standard notation only.

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.

Three classic works—including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master "It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Richard Yates’s first novel, National Book Award finalist Revolutionary Road, is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents’ divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.

When the Shepards'' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the betrayal behind the dream, and desperately try every avenue of escape, only to find that all paths lead back to the small Long Island coastal town of Cold Spring Harbor, and to each other. But if there is no better chronicler than Yates of the quiet tragedy of thwarted suburban lives, Cold Spring Harbor is a testament to the absolute necessity of dreaming; for Yates''s protagonists, hope may be all there is.

Richard Yates was one of the most powerful, compassionate, and technically accomplished writers of America''s post-war generation. His work inspired writers such as Richard Ford, Andre Dubus, Robert Stone, and Kurt Vonnegut, and his 1961 novel, Revolutionary Road, is an acknowledged classic of American literature.

Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.

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When the Shepard''s car breaks down in pre-World War II New York City, a chain of events occurs that transforms the lives of the Shepards and the Drakes, as Evan and Rachel meet, court, and marry. But betrayal, disappointment, and secret schemes are on the horizon.