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"The best modern novel I have read this year" - Julian Barnes, Guardian, Books of the Year 2003
This acclaimed novel of two women struggling to overcome their past is another masterpiece from the author of Revolutionary Road.
"Thankfully Methuen has reissued this novel, which had fallen out of print...This is a brave, brilliant book" Sunday Herald
"Like a softer, subtler, less salty Updike, Yates expounds a poignant, suburban American realism that is as touching as it is real, and as beautiful as it is sad" Book of the Week, Time Out
"Invigorating and gripping ... every word works quietly to establish the illusion that things are happening by themselves ... A literary achievement" Time
"Few men since Flaubert have offered such sympathy to women whose lives are hell" Kurt Vonnegut
"A tour de force ... an unflinching novel of rare power" Mordecai Richler
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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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