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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) [1] was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Grammy Award.
Richard Yates is an autobiographical novel by Tao Lin, published in 2010. Plot [ edit ] Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (unrelated to their child star namesakes, though they are the same respective ages as the actors were at the time the book was published) are friends who initially met over the internet and converse with each other ...
Young Hearts Crying. Young Hearts Crying is the penultimate novel of American writer Richard Yates . The novel tells the story of struggling poet and artist Michael Davenport, who spurns his heiress wife's offer of financial assistance, choosing instead to make abortive attempts at achieving artistic success on his own terms. [1] The novel ...
Print ( Hardback & Paperback) ISBN. 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 .
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 ...