Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (by Richard Yates)
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This book is a masterpiece of short stories by Richard Yates. He focuses on ordinary little people: children who are isolated by their classmates after transferring to another school, young men and women who are anxious about their upcoming marriages, instructors who are serious and responsible but not understood by others, who pretend to be ordinary people after being fired. The middle-aged white-collar workers who work outside the home, the clerks who have lofty ideals but have never been able to realize them... Yates's writing style is gentle and a little humorous, but he profoundly writes about the loneliness of ordinary individuals who are out of tune with the rhythm of the times, and outlines the life outline of the little people who can't help themselves. Eleven different stories, every time you open one, there are shadows of thousands of people, and they are all sighs from the deepest heart. Inadvertently, we all fell into the web of loneliness woven by Yates, unable to escape, just as everyone cannot escape their own lives.
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