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Binding: Hardcover
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Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: April 30, 2001
Sales Rank: 1269347
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The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers thelate author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers.
Amazon.com Review:
Although nobody would describe the unflinching stories of Richard Yates as beach reading, a sunny day and a soothing breeze may provide the best possible antidote to the author's trademark gloom. But even if you open the book in the dead of winter, don't expect to put it down, for Yates will draw you in despite yourself. Like the English novelist Anita Brookner--or, more to the point, like his protégé Raymond Carver--he is attracted to small lives. And like a diviner, he seeks out and locates precisely those moments when this smallness is sensed by his characters.
The protagonist of "The Canal," for example, spent most of World War II behind a desk, serving on the European front only during the final months of the conflict. At a postwar cocktail party, however, Miller and his wife encounter a former military officer, and the two begin to exchange stories. It turns out that the officer was decorated for valor in the very same battle that occasioned a major dressing-down for Miller. "I'll put it this way," he was told by his exasperated superior. "You give me more goddamn trouble than all the rest of the men in this squad put together. You're more goddamn trouble than you're worth. You got an answer for that?" Obviously he didn't--and still doesn't.
In an introduction to the 27 stories collected here, Richard Russo celebrates Yates's influence as a teacher at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Any reader of Raymond Carver, to take just one conspicuous example, will recognize the atmosphere of lonely despair, coupled with small ambitions, that he absorbed from his mentor. It's a fascinating study in literary ancestry, and offers yet another reason to pick up this essential and long-overdue volume. --Regina Marler
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These are great stories. Simply great. Yates has a remarkable way of saying much without saying too much. Each story in this collection has enough narrative power to fill a novel. Yates is somehow able to communicate a complex and varied backstory for the characters in a few paragraphs, adding to the richness of these already very rich stories. These are all satisfying, well done works. Highly recommended.
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The Pulitzer Prize winning writer Richard Russo likes Richard Yates. In his introductory essay, he writes, "Indeed, it may be the very modesty of (the Yates characters') desires that disguises their potential for life's most demoralizing failures." Russo identifies this quality as a defining characteristic of the Yates story.
True enough.
And perhaps only a few collections of short stories are meant to be read straight through: "Lost in the City" by Edward P. Jones, "A Good ... Read More
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As nearly everyone who's read him will tell you, Yates' best work is Revolutionary Road. Easter Parade is good, but not nearly as fine as Road. This book of short stories contains a few greats, but quite a few more flops. However, the flops show Yates developing stories and characters. There are countless war stories, TB ward adventures, and lonely husbands and wives. While his ability to convey emotion in every story is nothing short of wonderful, the settings and themes do grow old. You continue reading, ... Read More
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I read "Saying Goodbye to Sally", one of the short stories in this collection, for a writing class. As the weeks passed I could not forget the authentic characters or Richard Yates intriguing and haunting writing style. Bios on him say he is a forgotten American author. I don't know why. He is worthy of being remembered! His work is ironic, thoughtful, and powerful. Although he reminds me a little of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom he clearly admired, his style is very much his own. I really enjoyed "Evening ... Read More
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Readers unfamiliar with Richard Yates can do much worse than to begin with this wonderful collection of stories. I believe that the Collected Stories will stand next to Revolutionary Road as the two best examples of his work.
Yates is absolutely unflinching in his examination of the average life. There is self-deception everywhere he turns his gaze, even in the smallest most unassuming dreams. The moments of grace and humor are there as well, but they are small, often accidental, and generally not ... Read More
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