· Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. First published in , 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 s, the era when the /5(K). · Richard Yates's collection of stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, may not be a bundle of laughs, but Nicholas Lezard is hooked. Buy Eleven Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. There are eleven kinds of lonely lives, all the protagonists lack sense of security and live unhappy lives: fired white collar in Manhattans office; taxi driver with eminent imagination; young man dreaming to be a writer even being frustrated time and time again; man and woman who are going to get married but confused about their future marriage life; weird teacher; new transfer pupil; TB patient; a wife who 5/5(1).
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Paperback) Published December 31st by Delta/Seymour Lawrence. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Richard Yates. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, by Richard Yates (Methuen, £). It is odd how often you hear otherwise sensitive, literate people say that they don't like short stories. There are signs, though. In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was published, his first collection of sh. Richard Yates shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The.
Richard Yates's collection of stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, may not be a bundle of laughs, but Nicholas Lezard is hooked. Buy Eleven Kinds of Loneliness at the Guardian bookshop. Buy Eleven. There are eleven kinds of lonely lives, all the protagonists lack sense of security and live unhappy lives: fired white collar in Manhattans office; taxi driver with eminent imagination; young man dreaming to be a writer even being frustrated time and time again; man and woman who are going to get married but confused about their future marriage life; weird teacher; new transfer pupil; TB patient; a wife who have been sick for a long time; a jazz pianist; the frustrated military officer, and. Eleven Kinds of Lonelinessby Richard Yates ()Vintage () pp. I ‘m planning on working through Yates’s work in order of publication, so the second book on the docket is Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, his book of short stories written mostly in the 50s before Revolutionary Road was published.
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