William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. And them comes Pearl Harbor and suddenly...

Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when...

Children of divorced parents, Sarah and Emily Grimes grow into two very different women as they struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past. The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal .-- The Boston...

Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful and talented couple, are desperate to maintain their dreams of greatness and distinction against the inexorable pressure of their suburban life.

Yates's second novel follows a young man, Robert Prentice, and his mother Alice, a sculptor. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable portrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even as life challenges...

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. And them comes Pearl Harbor and suddenly...