Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

“It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

“To me and to many other writers of my generation, the work of Richard Yates came as a liberating force…. He was one of the most important and influential writers of the second half of the century.” —Robert Stone, acclaimed author of A Flag for Sunrise