Who was his student at Iowa, revered him, as does Tobias Wolff, and the jackets To belong to that august yet sad category, the writer’s writer. Styron and Vonnegut and Robert Stone as the voice of a generation–he seems now Once the most vaunted of authors–praised by " Since his death in 1992, all nine of Richard Yates’s titles have He is described as a writers writer but never became popular among readers. Know” When I read that he is deceased and his books now are seldom found on shelves, I wondered why and realized I perhaps had a treasure.įurther research and in particular the full review by Stewart O'Nan of the Boston Review, summed up Yates as someone who should have been read. The author was unfamiliar to me but I totally agreed with this Stewart O'Nan quote, " he writes about so average and identifiable, so much like the world we It was an easy read over only four days, and I thought, "Well wasn't that pleasant, no big drama, a sense of something was going on amongst a few characters, but still no melodramas. I had found it at a sale and it languished on my to be read shelf, so right after Easter this year, I opened it. It is refreshing to just read a nice, plain, simple story I thought after reading this book by the late Richard Yates.
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