The Collected Stories of Richard Yates: Short Fiction from the author of Revolutionary Road

A literary event of the highest order The Collected Stories of Richard Yates brings together Yatess peerless short fiction in a single volume for the first time.. Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful compassionate and technically accomplished writers of Americas postwar generation and his work has inspired such diverse talents as Richard Ford Ann Beattie André Dubus Robert Stone and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This collection as powerful as Yates beloved Revolutionary Road contains the stories of his classic works Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (a book The New York Times Book Review hailed as the New York equivalent of Dubliners) and Liars in Love; it also features nine new stories seven of which have never been published.. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers the grim humor that attends life on a tuberculosis ward or the moments of terrified peace experienced by American soldiers in World War II Yates examines every frayed corner of the American dream. His stories as empathetic as they are unforgiving are like no others in our nations literature. Published with a moving introduction by the novelist Richard Russo this collection will stand as its authors final masterpiece.