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"Cold Spring Harbor" tells the story of two families who unexpectedly meet and become intertwined under the shadow of the times. A broken down car made the young and handsome but confused Evan and the sensitive and delicate Rachel meet and fall in love, which also pulled the shadows of their respective families into a whirlpool. The Shepard family and the Drake family tried to start a life in the seemingly peaceful town of Cold Spring Harbor, but they quietly exposed their inner fantasies and cracks. The tug-of-war between ideals and reality, the alternation of passion and disappointment, along with the slow tide of fate, push everyone to the edge of emotion. With his signature calm style, Yates meticulously presents the process of ordinary post-war American families pursuing happiness but having to face disillusionment, profoundly revealing the endless sadness and tenderness contained in life's trivial daily life and the entanglement of fate.

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...

"Liars in Love" is Richard Yates's second collection of short stories after "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness", which includes seven short stories in total. It perfectly demonstrates Yates's superior powers of insight and description. With this book, Yates once again proves the power of the short story. Yates, who is obviously more interested in describing "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 three-dimensionally before our eyes: failed artists, single mothers with difficult lives, alienated family relationships, estranged marriages, rebellious daughters, fleeting love affairs, unreliable dreams...

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book said, it "contains huge potential energy". This is true for students and teachers. In some ways, this book continues a theme explored in Revolutionary Road: the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The "good school" in the title is undoubtedly the biggest irony of the entire book, and it makes people sigh after reading it. This book is one of the few works written by Richard Yates that is gentle and full of compassion. The protagonist's growth background and experience in the novel also overlap with Yates himself. The sad and restrained emotions in it are very attractive.

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.

The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book says, it "contains huge sexual energy", and this is true for students and teachers. To some extent, "Richard Yates: Good School" also continues the theme explored in "Revolutionary Road": the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The title of the book "Good School" is undoubtedly the greatest irony, and it makes people sigh after reading it.

The young Wheelers lived in a house on Revolutionary Road in the American suburbs. Her husband, Frank, is a regular office worker, and his wife, April, raises a pair of children at home and is an amateur actress. When they felt that they were about to enter middle age, the two were tired of the empty and boring life atmosphere around them and quarreled endlessly. Aibo proposed to abandon everything now and go to Paris to find new passions and dreams. The gears of fate began to turn at this moment... The boss said to Frank: You are a promising young man, give you a promotion. And his wife, Ai Bo, is pregnant again. Can "going to Paris", a short-lived dream that once changed their lives, bring them a "revolutionary road" in life?

Michael Davenport was a young man who retired from the European battlefields of World War II. He was ambitious and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He is aloof, lives for art, and does not want to get involved with his wife's money, but he still has to write articles for a business magazine to maintain his hobby of writing poetry. His wife Lucy is extremely rich, but she never knows what she wants. She just feels that others seem to be happier than her. As time went by, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they themselves remained unknown. Their once happy lives are being swallowed up by adultery and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as his theme. He used the heavy hammer of reality to smash the innocence of the dream, bringing an incomparable dull pain, making people feel the sentimentality of the times and personal difficulties when reading.

As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily has chosen a path that is not so safe and unconventional. All romantic affairs cannot truly satisfy her. Although the bond connecting the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has become farther and farther...

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?

A great writer in the age of anxiety, a spokesman for the urban frustrated; Richard Yates's fantasy work of conflicting phantoms confronts our unstable and mediocre life; can we dream again? Facing a life that is about to fall apart and this crazy era. John Wilder never thought that his life would start falling like a free fall from the age of 35. What on earth hindered his originally peaceful and peaceful life? Make him tired of everything in life. His decent and successful job became boring, his gentle and considerate wife made him doubt his love, and he felt powerless and guilty in the face of his increasingly withdrawn child. Endless fatigue came inexplicably, the happiness he had been accustomed to before became fleeting, and everything that was solid began to shake like a phantom. He felt that he was sick, trapped in volatile emotions, alcohol, and self-doubt that became increasingly out of control... "Life is really Is that it?" After questioning himself countless times, he decided to fight against this life that was collapsing halfway. Like many Americans in the 1960s, John Wilder made an unforgettable decision. He wanted to dream again to save this life that was about to fall apart...