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A Special Providence
By: Richard Yates
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ISBN: 9780099518631 Publisher: Random House
Year of publishing: 2008 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 336 Language: English
Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life.From...Read more
Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life.From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of post-war America, at odds with its own identity, striving to combine prosperity and ideals, mercilessly exposed in the attempt to do so. At once tender and ironic, bitterly sad and achingly funny, A' Special Providence' is the second novel by the author of 'Revolutionary Road'.
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About the author: Richard Yates
Review:A beautiful book" -- Joan Didion "Wonderful" -- Andre Dubus "So quotidian, so possible, so plausible, that it is more terrifying to read...than to read of the disasters and massacres of kings"...Read more
A beautiful book" -- Joan Didion "Wonderful" -- Andre Dubus "So quotidian, so possible, so plausible, that it is more terrifying to read...than to read of the disasters and massacres of kings" Harper's "Every good writer I know acknowledges Yates as a master" -- Kurt Vonnegut "Yates's trademark blackness does not seem out of place or excessive... the skilful sketches of Prentice's colleagues bring an element of humanity to a sordid and inhumane topic" -- Leyla Sanai www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com
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