A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates - Softcover

Bailey, Blake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312423756 ISBN 13: 9780312423759

Verlag: Picador, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Bailey Blake

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Críticas:

"The arrival of Blake Bailey's great, perceptive, heartbreaking, Yates biography is a landmark event." --The New York Times

"[A] tremendous book...It's a storytelling success that Bailey can turn Yates's long, slow grind toward obscurity into a fabulous and often hysterical read.... Yates rises up as something he never allowed in his fiction: a hero." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Compulsively readable...Indispensable...Excellent in itself, it records, with photographic accuracy, where Yates's obsessively autobiographical fiction originated." --The New York Times Book Review

"[A] meticulously researched, judicious, and critically perceptive biography...Bailey's version of Yates's life proves to be its own kind of masterpiece, as gripping as the best of Yates's novels, and more inspiring than sad." --The Boston Globe

Reseña del editor:

An incisive portrait of celebrated American novelist and short short writer Richard Yates describes his turbulent personal life, his struggle with alcoholism and manic depression, his financial woes, and his remarkable literary works--including The Easter Parade and Revolutionary Road--chronicling the desperation of the American middle class. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312423756
• ISBN 13: 9780312423759
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704