Name: Special Providence
SKU: 18742548
Price: 13.83 EUR
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Author: Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780099518631

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard Yates

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0099518635

ISBN13

9780099518631

Edition No.

Special Providence

Richard Yates (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Special Providence "

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of battle principally involves fear and confusion. 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. Richard Yates's novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby's adventures and disasters and reflects on the intense but complicated bond between mother and son.

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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