{"product_id":"revolutionary-road-the-easter-parade-eleven-kinds-of-loneliness-isbn-9780307270894","title":"Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree classic works—including the virtuosic \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Road\u003c\/i\u003e—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Yates’s first novel, National Book Award finalist Revolutionary Road, is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents’ divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.“It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To me and to many other writers of my generation, the work of Richard Yates came as a liberating force.... He was one of the most important and influential writers of the second half of the century.” —Robert Stone, acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlag for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Yates\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Road\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels \u003ci\u003eA Good School, The Easter Parade, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDisturbing the Peace, \u003c\/i\u003eand two collections of short stories, \u003ci\u003eEleven Kinds of Loneliness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiars in Love\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Price \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eClockers, Freedomland, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLush Life.\u003c\/i\u003eFROM THE INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD PRICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As crystalline as he was on the page, in  the flesh Richard Yates was a magnificent wreck, a chaotic and wild-hearted presence,  a tall but stooped smoke-cloud of a man, Kennedyesque in dress and manner, gaunt  and bearded with hung eyes and a cigarette-slaughtered voice, the words barreling  out of him in a low breathless rumble as ash flew into salads, into beer mugs, into  the laps of others with every gesture, his demeanor invariably lurching between courtly-solicitous  and edge-of-bitter cavalier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I first met Yates in 1974 at the School of the Arts,  Columbia University, in an MFA fiction workshop. For a few thousand dollars a semester,  he entered the room every week wearing a nubby sports jacket and askew knit tie to  critique and counsel a table of students sporting frayed bell-bottoms, Prince Valiant  bangs and sarcastic hats. It had been thirteen years since \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Road\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDisturbing  the Peace\u003c\/i\u003e was a year away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We were in our early twenties, and most of us had neither  read nor even heard of him. In class he called you by your last name, no title: a  brusque, slightly boarding-schoolish and utterly seductive form of address. He regularly  and passionately savaged those writers whom he perceived to be his more validated  (‘‘lucky,’’ he called them) peers, but he treated a student’s work, no matter how  hapless, with shocking earnestness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He was a nurturer of grudges; an incubator of  slights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His personal gods were Hemingway and Fitzgerald.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300914286821,"sku":"NP9780307270894","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307270894.jpg?v=1767735721","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/revolutionary-road-the-easter-parade-eleven-kinds-of-loneliness-isbn-9780307270894","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}