Liars in Love: Stories [Hardcover]

Richard Yates (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence; 1st edition (1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440046696
• ISBN-13: 978-0440046691
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,000,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good stuff from Yates, September 10, 2009

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Kevin C. Cramsey (Reading, Pa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liars in Love: Stories (Hardcover)

"Liars in Love," has seven solid stories from the late, great, Richard Yates. If you're familiar with Yates from "Revolutionary Road" or his other novels or short stories, you'll know that you're in for a bumpy ride with his cast of characters. Habitually reaching for a cocktail or lighting a cigarette, the Yates characters are never a happy lot. These stories are no excception. The stories are heavily autobiographical and coincide with much of the material in a terrific Yates biography, "A Tragic Honesty." The lead male charcaters (Jack Fields, Bill Grove, et. al) are all Yates at various stages of his life, from little boy in the first story to middle aged down on his luck writer in the final story. The two best stories are indeed the first, "Oh Joseph I'm So Tired," where his mother is once again the object of ridicule, and the last, "Saying Goodbye to Sally," which chronicles Yates' time in Hollywood when he worked on a screenplay for John Frankenheimer on a movie that was never made. A must if you're a Yates fan. For the uninitiated, you need to ask yourself if you like the later short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. If you do, take a chance. If you don't, this might not be the book for you.