Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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Three classic works—including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master

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New York (duh), the Army (duh), the newspaper business (duh), Paris (duh), TB (X2), restless domesticity (duh), and lots of alcohol (duh), with a surprising amount of the stories set on or around Christmas. In The Best of Everything on the eve of the wedding day a groom is interested more in his new suitcase than in his bride… doing her best to conceal her fear, never guessing, or at least never showing, that she was dealing with a chronic, compulsive failure, a strange little boy in love with the attitudes of collapse.” If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lays their tragedy.” – Richard Yates, interview On this album, Tikaram ceased collaborating with Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke and produced the album entirely by herself. The album did not chart in the UK. [1]

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. Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other’s discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.” Mi perdoni Mister Yates se a lei e al suo più che comprensibile pessimismo io mi ostino a preferire uomini così: Prendete R. Ford e toglietegli quello che ha di eccessivo, poi prendete R. Carver e aggiungetegli ciò che gli manca. Uniteli, mescolateli e serviteli in undici calici a tulipano (*) Yates è un maestro nel fotografarli con racconti brevi ed efficaci, nel mettere a nudo con pochi tratti il nodo irrisolto della loro esistenza.

Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard

This short story collection is astonishingly good. It's up there with J.D. Salinger's short fiction, with Raymond Carver's, John Updike's too. Strangely, Mr. Yates didn't see great appreciation for his work during his own lifetime. He only ever had one story published in The New Yorker (for shame!), and even that was a posthumous honour. Queste undici storie sono l’esordio letterario di Richard Yates perché, anche se pubblicate dopo “Revolutionary Road” (anzi, proprio sull’onda di quel primo e travolgente successo), furono scritte in precedenza. Each story in this collection, despite some of their datedness (a few take place in TB wards, for example), draws you in with lovely spare writing, and sensitively drawn characters who intrigue, even if they aren't particularly likeable. Each story also features a clever title. Fun With a Stranger Ms Snell is a teacher who's forgotten how to connect with students. And in fact possibly feels more of an animosity towards them. Wrong job.Queste sono le istruzioni per realizzare il miglior processo di sintesi minimalista, peccato che siano inutili se non si possiede il talento di Richard Yates. racconti bellissimi, li hanno commentati egregiamente in tanti, non ho parole nuove per lodarli come meritano. So che probabilmente sto commettendo un’ingiustizia: ci ho provato, giuro che ci ho provato a dare le cinque stelle a questo libro, ma non ci riesco, è più forte di me.