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...

This volume collects three classic works--including Revolutionary Road, soon to be a major motion picture--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master.

Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces in this collection showcase Richard Yates's extraordinary...

Set in a New England boarding school on the cusp of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the story of a student, a crippled chemistry teacher, and the schoolmaster's young daughter, who falls in love with the...

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...

This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.