Yates Richard 1926 1992 (7 results)

Yates, Richard, 1926-1992. Revolutionary road. Vintage Books, 2008, 3rd Vintage contemporaries edition, 355pp., PAPERBACK, very good copy with slight wear. Vintage contemporaries. ISBN 9780307454621.

Hardcover. First printing. Octavo, 229 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with yellow print. Price unclipped: "$7.95". Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Text block has yellow tinted top edge. 1373023. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Encuadernación: Rústica. Colección: Literaturas. La Nueva York de los años treinta a los setenta, a la que llegan los ecos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y del psicoanálisis, es el escenario de esta novela valiente y demoledora, profundamente humana. La novela en que se basa la película más esperada del 2009: Revolutionary Road, con Kate Winslet y Leonardo DiCaprio. «Lo que aquí podemos encontrar, sumado a la bella escritura, es aquello que hace que un libro resulte de manera inmediata intensa y brillantemente vivo. Si se necesita algo más para realizar una obra maestra, no sé de qué se trata. » TENNESSEE WILLIAMS «Ninguna de las hermanas Grimes estaba destinada a ser feliz, y al echar una mirada retrospectiva siempre da la impresión de que los problemas comenzaron con el divorcio de sus padres. » Así empieza esta magistral novela del autor de Vía Revolucionaria: la historia de dos hermanas que construyen sus vidas por caminos opuestos. Para Sarah, el matrimonio y la vida familiar son un refugio seguro, aunque no garanticen la felicidad. Emily, en cambio, busca en un hombre tras otro las respuestas que no puede darse a sí misma, y procura en vano huir de la soledad. La Nueva York de los años treinta a los setenta, a la que llegan los ecos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y del psicoanálisis, es el escenario de esta novela valiente y demoledora, profundamente humana. «Pocos hombres, desde Flaubert, han mostrado tanta compasión por aquellas mujeres cuyas vidas son un infierno. » . » KURT VONNEGUT «Yates es, junto a Scott Fitzgerald y Hemingway, uno de los tres indiscutibles grandes novelistas norteamericanos del siglo XX. » . » DAVID HARE *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Impression. First British Edition, with wraparound pictorial dust jacket taken from Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks." 8vo: [6],229,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Virtually pristine (and probably unread), both book and jacket. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Difficult to imagine a finer copy. In 1989, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Yates, reflecting on his life's work, had this to say: "I'm one of those writers who has the misfortune to write his best book first." Revolutionary Road, in fact, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1962 and is hailed today as a modern classic. But in the opinions of many writers and critics, The Easter Parade is equally fine (the book has been championed by Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry McMurtry and Tao Lin, among others). Its famous opening line warns of the bleak narrative to follow: "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce." The novel, Yates's fourth, "is centred on the struggles of his female protagonist, Emily Grimes, and her older sister, Sarah. Both sisters try to become writers and for different reasons fail in this ambition. In the course of his narrative Yates suggests how men, threatened by female ambition, hold back the women they live with. At the same time, Yates also weaves into this novel his awareness of domestic violence, suggesting an understanding of the vulnerability of women within marriage." Finally, Yates's inclusion of abortion in Easter Parade (as well as Revolutionary Road), "suggests attentiveness to, and sensitivity towards, the political debate about the rights of women." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Condition: usado- bueno.

First printing. Yate's first collection of stories, published the year after his critically acclaimed debut novel, "Revolutionary Road." These stories also received positive critical attention, being compared favorably with James Joyce's "Dubliners." Binding shows just a hint of fading along top and bottom edges of boards, slight dustiness to textblock edges. Prior owner gift inscription dated Halloween 1962 on verso of front free endpaper. Jacket is price clipped and has minor rubs along joint folds and at top and bottom edges of spine. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 230 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: [10],278pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, red end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced $7.95. Fine unread copy in Fine jacket with blurbs by John Ciardi, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., William Styron, Dorothy Parker, and John Thompson. Scarce such. To all appearances, Yates's protagonist, John Wilder, has all the trappings of Sixties successâ"promising career, loving family, beautiful city apartment and country homeâ"but something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since soured. More for Revolutionary Road, his debut novel, than for this comparatively ham-fisted effort, Yates is often considered the great forgotten novelist of 20th-century America. Yet he survived by doing corporate PR, writing copy for the Remington Rand Corporation about generations of spanking new computers. He belonged to no literary faction, declining to call himself a realist, insisting that all novels came "filled with techniques. . . . The emotions of fiction are autobiographical," he once observed, "but the facts never are . . ." Disturbing the Peace "is Richard Yates's only bad book, but it came at a time when critics were looking for a comeback. . . . It had been fourteen years since Revolutionary Road, and the author had shown no further signs of greatness. As slowly as he composed, it might be five or ten years before another Yates novelâ"if, indeed, there was one left in him. Disturbing the Peace confirmed for some that Yates was finished, that, like Fitzgerald and so many others, he'd squandered his talent, drank it away." (Boston Review) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.