New Releases by Richard Yates

More of that Pacific Northwest craziness you''ve come to worship and adore! Includes masterful works of creative genius by Scott Sparks and Randy Long, with some other silly junk by Richard F. Yates.

1944, NY. Robert Prentice a dix-huit ans et s''apprête à rejoindre l''Europe pour servir son pays. Il a passé toute sa jeunesse à résister à l''étouffante présence de sa mère, Alice, en butte avec ses démons et ses ambitions extravagantes. Divorcée d''un honnête homme, apprentie sculptrice, elle s''est toujours sentie appelée à vivre un destin d''exception. Son cher Bobby, seul allié des années de tourmente, a vu son enfance hypothéquée, ses études sacrifiées, et a dû endurer les compagnons de fortune, les dettes honteuses et les déménagements à la cloche de bois. Aujourd''hui, engagé comme le reste de sa génération dans le corps militaire, il va pouvoir montrer à tous - et surtout à lui-même - qu''il n''est pas qu''un fils, le fils d''Alice Prentice, posant nu tel un faune, sous les yeux moqueurs des jeunes voisins, pour aider sa mère à donner forme à ses délires. La guerre lui offre enfin l''opportunité de devenir un homme, un vrai, capable de trouver sa place au sein d''une franche camaraderie de garnison et de s''illustrer dans de hauts faits de combats. Abreuvé d''idéalisme, nourri d''héroïsme hollywoodien, il croit, lui aussi, à son destin d''exception. Mais, à la guerre comme à la ville, il comprendra qu''il y a beaucoup d''appelés, mais peu d''élus... Deux itinéraires, deux âmes blessées : Robert, par sa guerre ratée, Alice, par ses rêves insensés. Et pourtant, chacun garde toujours l''espoir d''une seconde chance possible, un jour, ailleurs. Dans un roman ouvertement autobiographique, Richard Yates fait le portrait d''une Amérique sans pitié, irrémédiablement en quête d''elle-même.

From digital drawings to manifestos, camping stories to fake news reports, The Primitive Entertainment Workshop includes poems by Scott Sparks, stories by Randy Long, a short essay by "Elvisa Crinkler," and general mayhem by Richard F. Yates.

La Nueva York de los años treinta a los setenta, a la que llegan los ecos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y del psicoanálisis, es el escenario de esta novela valiente y demoledora, profundamente humana. «Ninguna de las hermanas Grimes estaba destinada a ser feliz, y al echar una mirada retrospectiva siempre da la impresión de que los problemas comenzaron con el divorcio de sus padres.» Así empieza esta magistral novela del autor de Vía Revolucionaria: la historia de dos hermanas que construyen sus vidas por caminos opuestos. Para Sarah, el matrimonio y la vida familiar son un refugio seguro, aunque no garanticen la felicidad. Emily, en cambio, busca en un hombre tras otro las respuestas que no puede darse a sí misma, y procura en vano huir de la soledad. Reseñas: «Lo que aquí podemos encontrar, sumado a la bella escritura, es aquello que hace que un libro resulte de manera inmediata intensa y brillantemente vivo. Si se necesita algo más para realizar una obra maestra, no sé de qué se trata.» Tennessee Williams «Pocos hombres, desde Flaubert, han mostrado tanta compasión por aquellas mujeres cuyas vidas son un infierno.» Kurt Vonnegut «Yates es, junto a Scott Fitzgerald y Hemingway, uno de los tres indiscutibles grandes novelistas norteamericanos del siglo XX.» David Hare «Una novela elocuente y conmovedora, sutilmente aguda.» The Washington Post «Su estilo llano, discreto, tiñe las vidas de las hermanas Grimes de una tremenda fuerza mientras, escena a escena, la desencantada Emily va dejando atrás sus sueños. El efecto es dulce y cruel al mismo tiempo, doloroso y brutal... Las hermanas Grimes tiene una asombrosa ligereza y densidad.» The Boston Review «Extraordinariamente bueno... Escrito con la intensidad y la sencillez de las verdades absolutas.» The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle «Yates escribe de manera contundente y nos sumerge sin esfuerzo en la vida de sus personajes... Un contenido pero conmovedor relato.» The New York Times Book Review «Ya conocemos a John Updike y a Philip Roth, pero el gran novelista americano olvidado del siglo XX es Richard Yates... Ahora que su obra resurge gracias a Revolutionary Road, la película protagonizada por Leonardo DiCaprio y Kate Winslet, este gran visionario se unirá a los gigantes de la narrativa americana.» The Guardian

A collection of articles and music transcribed for solo classical guitar gathered from ten years of the popular series in the journal Soundboard. Each of the music scores is accompanied by an article describing the process of transcription for the guitar, the history of the music and composer, and performance suggestions. All pieces are fully fingered and suitable for intermediate to advanced players.

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The classical guitar is at its best with music of smaller proportions that is personal, evocative, and imbued with opportunities for subtle, expressive nuances in performance. Like the piano it must stitch together discrete and fading notes into continuous melodies supported by a harmonic background. the joining of Grieg''s music and the classical guitar seems to be a most obvious and fruitful endeavor. This collection presents transcriptions from Grieg''s best known and loved piano works. They are of intermediate to early advanced difficulty, with detailed fingering indications and extensive notes about the transcriptions and performance suggestions for each piece. This wonderful music, so easily and elegantly translated to the guitar, has previously been overlooked by most guitarists. These arrangements show that the results of the combination is better than might be expected. Standard notation only.

The Peer Gynt Suite may be Edvard Grieg''s most famous composition. Its melodies have insinuated themselves into our culture so that they are now universally familiar. the movements are: Morning Song, Asa''s Death, Anitra''s Dance, and In the Hall of the Mountain King. This edition presents, for the first time, the entire suite in a version for solo guitar. This is a substantial work for the guitarist that, while requiring solid technique, is quite rewarding for both the player and the audience. Also included is a transcription of Grieg''s beautiful Solveig''s Song.

Escritos entre 1951 y 1961, y publicados un año después de Vía revolucionaria, estos espléndidos cuentos retratan a seres que no viven grandes tragedias o epopeyas, sino la callada desolación de la vida diaria: ciudadanos medios de Manhattan en la década de los cincuenta, oficinistas, un taxista empeñado en que el tiempo no borre para siempre sus experiencias, un novelista frustrado, una severa maestra, una pareja de jóvenes americanos de viaje en Cannes, un niño que acaso sea redimido por su profesora, hombres perdidos en la anodina vida suburbana, una joven embarazada que se niega a confesar el nombre del padre de su futuro hijo, mujeres sin amor...

This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library. Titles included: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike Revolutionary Road; The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion

»Richard Yates ist die wichtigste Wiederentdeckung der amerikanischen Literatur.« FAZ Bildhauerin Alice ist überzeugt, das Leben halte etwas ganz Besonderes für sie und ihren Sohn Robert bereit. Seinem steinernen Abbild hat sie ihren bisher einzigen Kritikererfolg zu verdanken, und mit seiner Hilfe – so viel ist sicher! – wird sie irgendwann künstlerische Anerkennung erzielen. Er wird die Privatschule abschließen und eine sichere Zukunft haben. Doch wie so oft kommt alles ganz anders als geplant, denn Robert geht einen eigenen Weg: Er meldet sich zum Militär, um in Europa auf den Schlachtfeldern des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu Ruhm und Ehre zu gelangen. Meisterhaft bündelt Richard Yates in seinem Roman die Hoffnungen und Schattenseiten des amerikanischen Traums. »Yates seziert Lebenslügen – kühl, schnörkellos, herzergreifend.« Welt am Sonntag

The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.

Korean edition of Richard Yates''s masterpiece REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (adapted into a motion picture featuring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio) Through a bright, talented couple Frank and April living with children in a Connecticut suburb, Yates realistically reveals the portrayal of American life in 1950s and incisively criticizes materialism. Korean translation by Yu Jeong Hwa. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Three classic works—including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road—that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master "It is Yates’s relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as his vision, that makes him such a great writer.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Richard Yates’s first novel, National Book Award finalist Revolutionary Road, is the unforgettable portrait of a marriage built on dreams that tragically never come to fruition. In The Easter Parade, he tells the story of two sisters whose parents’ divorce overshadows their entire lives. And in the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, we witness men and women striving for better lives amid discouragement and disillusion.

Los a�os cincuenta retratados por Richard Yates tienen demasiados parentescos con los tiempos que vivimos. El aislamiento que nace de la comodidad. La p�rdida, muchas veces inconsciente, de valores que en alg�n momento parec�an fundamentales. Brillantes, bellos y confundidos, Frank y April Wheeler tratan de sostener sus ideas incluso contra s� mismos y sus debilidades. �Si se necesita algo m�s para realizar una obra maestra, no s� de qu� se trata.� Tennesse Williams �Si V�a Revolucionaria no convierte a Yates en un escritor inmortal, la inmortalidad es algo que no vale la pena.� Time �Una Madame Bovary habitando los pesadillescos suburbios del American Dream. Pocos libros tan tristes hicieron tan felices a sus lectores: obra maestra.� El Pa�s ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIn the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank''s job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

Chinese edition of Revolutionary Road. Richard Yates'' classic gives pause to the pursuit of dreams of a couple who long for nontraditional lifestyle but find it hard to shake it from their lives. The movie is nominated for three 2009 Oscars, and won 2009 Golden Globe''s Best Actress for Kate Winslet. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

La Sarah i l''Emily Grimes són dues germanes ben diferents, però comparteixen una educació sentimental. Richard Yates descriu amb una precisió de cirurgià les desventures amoroses de l''Emily, soltera, intel·lectual i cosmopolita, que va passant d''un home a un altre sense acabar de trobar la plenitud. I també la infelicitat de la Sarah, la germana gran, més guapa però també més convencional, que en casar-se es condemna a una vida plena d''ingratituds. Yates també explora de manera magistral les relacions entre mares i filles. La Sarah i l''Emily no acaben d''alliberar-se mai de la Pookie, la seva mare, una dona patètica i dependent, un llast que les marcarà per sempre. Les germanes Grimes és un catàleg interessantíssim de fracassos sentimentals, una autèntica revelació per a tots aquells que vulguin entendre el desamor entre homes i dones. Com ha observat Julian Barnes, «si Cheever va saber captar la poesia i el surrealisme dels suburbis americans, Yates en va extreure tota la desesperació».

When the Shepards'' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the betrayal behind the dream, and desperately try every avenue of escape, only to find that all paths lead back to the small Long Island coastal town of Cold Spring Harbor, and to each other. But if there is no better chronicler than Yates of the quiet tragedy of thwarted suburban lives, Cold Spring Harbor is a testament to the absolute necessity of dreaming; for Yates''s protagonists, hope may be all there is.

April et Frank Wheeler forment un jeune ménage américain comme il y en a tant : ils s''efforcent de voir la vie à travers la fenêtre panoramique du pavillon qu''ils ont fait construire dans la banlieue new-yorkaise. Frank prend chaque jour le train pour aller travailler à New York dans le service de publicité d''une grande entreprise de machines électroniques mais, comme April, il se persuade qu''il est différent de tous ces petits-bourgeois au milieu desquels ils sont obligés de vivre, certains qu''un jour, leur vie changera... Pourtant les années passent sans leur apporter les satisfactions d''orgueil qu''ils espéraient. S''aiment-ils vraiment ? Jouent-ils à s''aimer ? Se haïssent-ils sans se l''avouer ?... Quand leur échec social devient évident, le drame éclate.

In a story set in postwar America, eighteen-year old Robert Prentice struggles with a soul damaged by war, while his fifty-three-year-old mother endures thwarted dreams of prosperity.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. "The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank''s job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Designed for use in Introductory Law courses for non-majors in law. The course is found in Political Science departments in universities, and Law Enforcement, Paralegal, and Legal Secretary programs in community colleges. This text introduces the legal principles that are basic to all major areas of the Canadian legal system. The integration of legal theory and practical application using current case law allow students to appreciate the impact that law has on all aspects of every day life. Introduction to Law in Canada provides a solid introduction to Canadian law and institutions and strikes a balance between theory and practice.

When the Shepard''s car breaks down in pre-World War II New York City, a chain of events occurs that transforms the lives of the Shepards and the Drakes, as Evan and Rachel meet, court, and marry. But betrayal, disappointment, and secret schemes are on the horizon.