Name: Cold Spring Harbor
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Author: Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780385295963

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard Yates

Publisher

Random House Lcc Us

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.65

ISBN

0385295960

ISBN13

9780385295963

Edition No.

Synopsis "Cold Spring Harbor "

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.

Richard Yates

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He was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1926. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he contracted tuberculosis, and after the war, he worked as an advertising copywriter and screenwriter and wrote speeches for Robert Kennedy. His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962 and was adapted into a film by Sam Mendes in 2008. Yates wrote six more novels and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He taught writing at Columbia, Iowa, Wichita, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the New School for Social Research, and spent periods in Europe, Los Angeles, and New York. He died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1992.

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