The Collected Stories Of Richard Yates Av Richard Yates

John Wilder er midt i trettiårene, en vellykket reklamemann, kjent for å kapre de store og viktige kundene. Han er gift med Janice, som beundrer ham, og de har en ti år gammel sønn. John har også en fast elskerinne, og andre innimellom. Alt ser bra...

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. And them comes Pearl Harbor and suddenly they are faced with larger...

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Richard Yates's novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby's adventures and disasters and reflects on the intense but complicated bond...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming...