Destiny (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 famous writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Andre Du Bois, Nick Hornby, David Hare, Raymond Carver, Joan Didion, and Richard Ford. Advocate; "Yates, along with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, are the three undisputed great American novelists of the twentieth century. The highest praise I can give Yates is that his work feels more like the work of a playwright than a novelist: he wants you to see everything he describes." - David Hare (playwright of "The Hours" and "The Reader") At eighteen, Prentiss is drafted into the Army. He is lonely and sensitive, eager to integrate into the surrounding environment but repeatedly frustrated. The trivial things in the army were infinitely magnified by his sensitivity, enough to shake lives. The divorced mother stubbornly wanted to become a sculptor regardless of her embarrassment of life, so she turned to put all her trust in reality and emotion on Prentiss. The war ended soon, and Prentice's heroic dream was never realized. Faced with the airtight and suffocating family love and reality, his choice was to escape or run away?
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