Richard Yates Knihy

Evan Shepard je mladík s pestrou minulosťou. Má za sebou búrlivú pubertu, stroskotané manželstvo a malú dcérku, no jeho stretnutie s pokojnou a krásnou Rachel znamená nový začiatok. Rýchlo sa vezmú, no veci nevychádzajú celkom tak, ako si naplánovali. Stres zo spoločného života s Rachelinou rodinou v dome v Cold Spring Harbor, kde spoločne bývajú, si začína vyberať na mladom páriku daň.

Keď sú sestry Sára a Emily ešte malé, veľmi sa od seba odlišujú. Emily sa obdivne pozerá na svoju rozumnú staršiu sestru a žiarli na jej vzťah s otcom, ktorý s nimi nežije, a neskôr na jej zdanlivo šťastné manželstvo. Cesta, ktorú si pre seba vyberie, je menej bezpečná a konvenčná, a jej milostné vzťahy ju nikdy naozaj neuspokoja. Aj keď puto medzi nimi pretrváva, vzdialenosť medzi oboma ženami sa postupne zväčšuje, až ich vzťah napokon ukončí tragická udalosť.

Núdzový východ je príbeh o odvrátenej strane amerického sna, ktorý bol v 50. rokoch minulého storočia v USA ideálom strednej vrstvy – dom na predmestí, manželka starajúca sa o deti v domácnosti, dobrá práca pre manžela a zaistené živobytie. V súlade s týmto ideálom žijú aj manželia April a Frank, ale postupne prichádzajú na plytkosť a prázdnotu takéhoto života. Museli mu obetovať vyššie ambície, ktoré kedysi mali. Z tohto života sa chcú vytrhnúť netradičným riešením, ale stroskotajú tak, ako si to ani jeden z nich nepredstavoval. Núdzový východ je majstrovský román spisovateľa, ktorého tvorbu prirovnáva kritika ku Scottovi Fitzgeraldovi, a cenili si ho takí autori ako Tennessee Williams či Kurt Vonnegut. Román sa stal predlohou na napísanie scenára k úspešnému filmu režiséra Sama Mendesa s Kate Winslet a Leonardom DiCaprio v hlavných úlohách.

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an editor of the school newspaper; Jack Draper, a crippled chemistry teacher; and Edith Stone, the schoolmaster's young daughter, who falls in love with most celebrated boy in the class of 1943.

Pět povídek (Doktor Jack Kilo, Všechno nejlepší, Fackovací panák, Moc dobrý jazzový pianista, Stavitelé) amerického spisovatele, vybraných z rozsáhlého celku jeho povídkové tvorby. Jsou vesměs psány na téma lidského osamění, jež člověka staví do těžkých situací, především duševních, ať už jeho příčina je jakákoli.

The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers the late author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan, Robert Stone, and Richard Russo, and universally acclaimed in reviews across the country, The Collected Stories is the crowning jewel in what has been the rediscovery of one of our greatest American writers.

Follows forty years in the lives of two sisters, victims of divorced, neglectful parents, as they develop into different kinds of women.

With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. 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 the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.

The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Back home, his mother Alice puts all her hopes in her son, and dreams of his return and starting a new life for them both.

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan’s life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan’s father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families—sharing equally complex and addled histories—will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home… But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made—in Richard Yates’ haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.

The mountain stages is where the real battles of the Tour de France are won and lost. Besides, the mountains make the most dramatic backdrops for those battles.This book takes a look at the long history of mountain stages in the Tour and the important role they've played in the careers of the eventual Tour winners.The book is illustrated with 130 historic photographs printed in duotone.

Richard Yates, 1926 in Yonkers, New York, geboren, erregte schon mit seinem Debütroman »Revolutionary Road« (1961; 2008 verfilmt mit Kate Winslet und Leonardo Di Caprio) Aufsehen: Viel Beifall kam vonseiten literarischer Kollegen wie Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams und John Cheever. »A Good School« (1978) spielt an einer fiktiven Privatschule, der Dorset Academy im Norden von Connecticut. Den zeitlichen Rahmen bilden die frühen vierziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, vor allem der Eintritt der USA in den Zweiten Weltkrieg nach dem Beschuss von Pearl Harbour durch die Japaner. Auf bewegende Weise geschildert wird das Internatsleben an der Academy, wo sich unspektakuläre Ereignisse mit dramatischen Entwicklungen ablösen. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Das feinsinnige Porträt über einen Mann am Abgrund John Wilder kann sich nicht beklagen: Er ist beruflich erfolgreich und hat ein erfüllendes Privatleben. Seine Abende verbringt er auf Cocktailpartys und die Wochenenden mit der Familie auf dem Land. Alles scheint gut. Doch wenn John ehrlich zu sich ist, dann weiß er, dass tief in ihm schon seit Langem etwas aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist – etwas droht, die Ruhe zu stören ... Ein eindringlicher und unvergesslicher Blick in die dunkelsten Winkel der Psyche, von einem meisterhaften Erzähler der modernen amerikanischen Literatur.