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'The most perceptive author of the 20th Century' The Times
Robert Prentice is eighteen. His mother Alice Prentice is fifty -three. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war, Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens. 'Read and weep' Kate Atkinson, Guardian 'Spell-binding' Sunday Tribune 'Was there ever a writer who saw so clearly and depicted so faithfully the cracks in this broken world?' Michael Chabon 'A hypnotic account of a doomed relationship between mother and son... utterly compelling throughout' 'Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'Yates' spare and understated prose is tailor-made for pathos and put to great use in characterisation' Flux Magazine
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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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