Liars in Love

(New York): Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, (1981).

Price: $30.00

Hardcover. First edition. Slight cocked with bumping on the corners and spine else very good in a near fine dustwrapper with corresponding wear on the spine.

Item #353712
ISBN: 0440046696

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Item #353712 Liars in Love. Richard YATES.

Richard Yates
birth name: Richard Walden Yates
born: 02/03/1926
died: 11/07/1992

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Biography

American novelist who enjoyed the strong personal advocacy of critics and fellow writers, among them John Ciardi , William Styron, Tennessee Williams, Dorothy Parker, Vance Bourjaily, and Kurt Vonnegut, who called his first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), "The Great Gatsby of my time." From his first stories to his most recent novels, Yates's work is characterized by a profound sadness; his themes of disappointment and disillusion are expressed in the lives of closely familiar characters, such that the average reader would find it difficult to distance himself from the action, and, as a result, large popular audiences have shied away from this sensitive author. - American Novelists Since World War IImore