Mediocre People (collected Works of Richard Yates)
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The representative work of Richard Yates, a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century and the "writer's writer"; Richard Yates is on par with Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever in literary attainments, and is deeply loved by Kurt Vonnege. Gut, Andre Du Bois, Nick Hornby, David Hare, Raymond Carver, Joan Didion and Richard Ford and other famous writers fans; "Yates, Fitzgerald and Hemingway can be regarded as the three indisputable American figures in the twentieth century. The greatest compliment I can give Yates is that he writes more like a playwright than a novelist: he wants you to see what he describes." - David Hare (The Hours and The Reading) The protagonist of the novel, John Wilder, is a real visionary. Over the age of 35, he is a boring but slightly successful salesman in the countryside. He has a lovely wife and a 10-year-old son, who is plain but warm. However, life is always full of twists and turns: his family no longer regards him as the glory of the family, because he abandoned and betrayed his marriage, his former family collapsed, he had nowhere to go, and eventually became addicted to alcohol. Overwhelmed, Wilder left home, resigned, and came to Hollywood, where he believed his dream would eventually become a reality. It seems that bad luck has never let go of this sinner who has made mistakes. His lover abandoned him and the producer ruthlessly rejected him. All kinds of misfortunes deepened his dependence on alcohol and dragged him into an increasingly bottomless hell.
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