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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Summary

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. 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.

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  • The most perceptive author of the twentieth century
    The Times

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Richard Yates

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