Liars in Love (collected Works of Richard Yates)
by H
About This Novel
Richard Yates (1926-1992) was "the great writer of the age of anxiety". As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-twentieth century, critics have compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. "The Liar in Love" is another masterpiece of Yates' short stories after "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness", which perfectly demonstrates the author's keen insight and descriptive power. This book contains a total of 7 short stories. Yates, who is good at writing about "failed life", relies on his keen mind and unique perspective of observation, like a collage art, to present the "little people" and their life fragments in the United States in front of us in three dimensions: failed artists, single-parent families with difficult lives, estranged family relationships, estranged marriages, rebellious daughters, fleeting love affairs, unreliable dreams...
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