Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness
Richard Yates
Methuen Publishing Ltd
<p><span>First published in 1962, a year after&nbsp;</span><span><b><i>Revolutionary Road</i></b></span><span>, 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 1950s the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.</span></p><p>These unflinchingly realistic stories explore loneliness, but they don't neglect failure, cruelty, and heartbreak. Most of the stories feature men who have been disappointed, somehow, by their inability to go on and fulfil the promise of their youth.</p><p><br><span><b>Contents</b></span><br><i><span>"Doctor Jack-o'-lantern"</span><br><span>"The Best of Everything"</span><br><span>"Jody Rolled The Bones"</span><br><span>"No Pain Whatsoever"</span><br><span>"A Glutton for Punishment"</span><br><span>"A Wrestler with Sharks"</span><br><span>"Fun with a Stranger"</span><br><span>"The B.A.R. Man"</span><br><span>"A Really Good Jazz Piano"</span><br><span>"Out with the Old"</span><br><span>"Builders"</span></i></p>