Liars in Love Richard Yates

Name: Liars in Love By Richard Yates
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Liars in Love by Richard Yates

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Summary

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.

Liars in Love Summary

Liars in Love by Richard Yates

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.

Liars in Love Reviews

Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance. * Saturday Review *
Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist * The Boston Globe *
Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep -- Kate Atkinson
The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer * The Times *
One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century * Sunday Telegraph *

About Richard Yates

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001299937

ISBN 13

9780099518594

ISBN 10

0099518597

Title

Liars in Love by Richard Yates

Author

Richard Yates

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2008-05-01

Number of pages

288

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us