Young Hearts Crying
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- Synopsis
- YUNG HEARTS CRYING Richard Yates's splendid new novel is about love, art, money and time, and about various men and women for whom those matters are the stuff of life. We come to know Michael Davenport as an intensely ambitious young man whose every professional failure weighs against the uneasy knowledge that his wife, Lucy, has an untapped private fortune amount ing to millions of dollars; and we come to know Lucy too-reluctant to perform the role of poor-little-rich-girl, always elegant but often shy, never quite certain as to what is expected of her. During their marriage, the Davenports are repeatedly dismayed by meeting other people whose lives are brighter and better than their own; then, after their divorce, they both feel unprepared for the perilous task of meeting themselves. They make choices of the kind that al ways seem inevitable and hardly ever work out well; they fall in love whenever love pre sents itself; they learn that youth doesn't last very long and maturity seldom brings rewards; they do what they can, and neither of them ever submits to the terror of giving up hope. A great many other characters take part in this abundant story, each brought fully alive with the brilliance readers have come to expect from this writer; innumerable scenes are charged with his rare blend of sadness and laughter; and the passage of time itself, from the late 1940's until several years ago, is made to seem as effortless as memory. DELACORTE PRESS / SEYMOUR LAWRENCE Young Hearts Crying is Richard Yates's first book since the highly acclaimed collection of stories Liars in Love, in 1981. In the meantime, with five of his earlier books brought back in new editions, his reputation has grown steadily. The critic Walter Clemons, reviewing a reissue ofRevolutionary Road, wrote that "After more than twenty years [it] has the feel'of a classic. It makes me flinch" RICHARD YATES "stands today as one of America's finest realistic novelists" (Shaun O'Connell, The Boston Globe). His previous works include the novels Revolutionary Road, Disturbing the Peace, The Easter Parade, and A Good School, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. Mr. Yates lives in Boston.
- Copyright:
- 1984
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 343 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780385292696
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/11/06
- Copyrighted By:
- Richard Yates
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- earl schwab
- Proofread By:
- jill o'connell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.