Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes…

This study explores the relationship between Yates’ life and fiction, and also examines the way in which Yates saw the American middle class. It looks at the influence on Yates…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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…

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Richard Yates’s novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby’s adventures…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned…

I believe I first met Greg in March of 1999. He was on crutches and healing from severe frostbite. That had resulted in the amputation of three toes. The story…