The Washington Post, April 22nd, 2001
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES By Richard Yates Henry Holt. 496 pp. $28 Richard Yates was 35 years old when his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was published in 1961. It was a critical success, as were most of the eight other books he published before his death in 1992, but its sales were indifferent, as was also true of his subsequent books. Admired by many other writers, he never really connected with readers. In the literary community this is widely regarded as an injustice, one that the publication of his Collected Stories is meant -- or hoped -- to correct. It is a thoroughly adm...
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