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A Good School. A Good School is a novel by American writer Richard Yates first published in 1978. [1] [2] It is set at a fictional Connecticut prep school in the early 1940s and relates the coming of age of a group of mainly WASP boys who at the same time prepare themselves if half-heartedly, to go to war immediately after graduation. A Good ...
Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety". His first novel, Revolutionary Road , was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award , while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness , brought comparisons to James Joyce .
Mike Wallace. Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his investigative journalism, [1] he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career.
Revolutionary Road is American author Richard Yates 's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ...
Publication date. 1962. Preceded by. Revolutionary Road. Followed by. A Special Providence. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. All of the stories also appeared in the posthumously released Richard Yates, The Collected Stories (2004), which includes other stories.
The Jacket (. Seinfeld. ) " The Jacket " is the third episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and the show's eighth episode overall. [1] In the episode, Jerry Seinfeld buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with the father of his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. Elaine's father Alton, a war veteran and writer, makes Jerry and ...
S. A Special Providence. Categories: Works by Richard Yates. American novels by writer.
0-312-42040-4. OCLC. 49800424. A Special Providence is a novel by American writer Richard Yates. First published in 1969, Yates' third book concerns the dual exploits of an awkward infantry soldier in World War II and his mother, a deluded sculptor living in New York City .