Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

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This is the first time I have read anything by Richard Yates. I had a collection of short stories by him for a number of years (The Collected Stories, 2004) but gave away that book to a used bookstore because I had way too many books in my house. What was I thinking?! ☹ Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is the fourth studio album by Tanita Tikaram, released in 1992. All songs were written and produced by the singer herself. " You Make the Whole World Cry" was the only single to be released from this album. Nell’ultimo racconto ( ”I costruttori”) si parla proprio dello scrivere e l’immagine di una casa in costruzione rende bene l’idea di come si debba realizzare un racconto fortificando le sue fondamenta ma occupandosi anche dei punti luce… Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other’s discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip.” Three classic works—including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master

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If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lays their tragedy.” – Richard Yates, interview Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. All of the stories also appeared in the posthumously released Richard Yates, The Collected Stories (2004), which includes other stories. [1] Contents [ edit ]Yates is a realist par excellence, the natural heir to Hemingway's pared-to-the-bones style and the antecedent of Carver's flat minimalism. There is something else though: a kind of transparency, almost a translucency, that owes more to Fitzgerald, his great literary hero... Read and weep" (Kate Atkinson Guardian) Sesto racconto: Un lattoniere grafomane abbandona il posto ben retribuito che occupa, per entrare nella redazione di un giornale e accetta di essere sottopagato

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Le introduzioni sono un punto di forza delle edizioni Minimun Classics (questa inclusa), ma dovete leggerle solo dopo aver letto l’opera.But if excellence is easy to admire it is hard to like, and Reece refused to make himself likable. It was his only failing, but it was a big one, for respect without affection can’t last long—not, at least, where the sentimentality of adolescent minds is involved.” Prendete R. Ford e toglietegli quello che ha di eccessivo, poi prendete R. Carver e aggiungetegli ciò che gli manca. Uniteli, mescolateli e serviteli in undici calici a tulipano (*) My favourite of the eleven, "The Best of Everything", tells the story of two ill-matched young adults on the eve of their wedding, and if it doesn't stab you in the heart, I don't know what will. The amazing thing about it for me is that it isn't in the least bit sentimental, and all the language in the story is neutral, save for one word close to the end - "tragic" - the one word the author allowed himself with which to weigh in, or point a finger. What a powerful and poignant moment he creates there. What an everyman's story too. I wonder how many marriages have followed such a courtship. I shudder to think. The themes in these stories, published in magazines before RR but collected in book form and released the year after (1962), are timeless: ordinary people dissatisfied with relationships, family or work, coping with illness, a tyrannical sergeant or teacher, romanticizing the past, fearing the future, trying to build something (to take an image from the final story), be it a novel or a meaningful life.