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Another extraordinary neglected classic by the author of Revolutionary Road
By the time he was twenty-three, Michael Davenport had learned to trust his own scepticism... Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is a minor poet trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain what is expected of her. All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier...
In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme, tenderly ironic chronicler of the "American Dream" and its casualties.
"A wonderful writer with a merciless eye" Time Out
"Bad couples, sad, sour marriages, young hopes corroded by suburban life...These are bitterly perceptive books" Grace Ingoldby, New Statesman
"Yates is a truthful and ruthless writer He intends to spare his readers nothing." Robert Nye, Guardian
"A writer of incomparable elegance and style, a man of profound gifts" Los Angeles Times
Praise for Richard Yates
"Yates's Revolutionary Road was the literary discovery of the year for me" Nick Hornby
"The Easter Parade is the best modern novel I have read this year" Julian Barnes
"His Collected Stories is the book I enjoyed most this year... Yates is a master of the form" Sebastian Faulks
"Read and weep" Kate Atkinson
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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 Revolutionary Road, his first novel, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He died in 1992.
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