Liars in Love

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Liars in Love
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Liars in Love

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The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces in this collection showcase Richard Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and his understanding of human frailty.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099518594
ISBN10 0099518597
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 203 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 197 x 17 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage Publishing
Format paperback
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Richard Yates is a writer of commanding gifts: an astonishing skill and robust intelligence. His prose is urbane yet sensitive, with passion and irony held deftly in balance. * Saturday Review *
Richard Yates stands today as America's finest realistic novelist * The Boston Globe *
Yates is a realist par excellence. Read and weep -- Kate Atkinson
The most perceptive author of the twentieth century...A magnificent writer * The Times *
One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century * Sunday Telegraph *
Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master -- Kurt Vonnegut

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Author's Bio

Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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