Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth:
Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to “pool their resources” and live together, with their children in 'Trying Out for the Race'. A young American soldier’s too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn’t seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in 'A Compassionate Leave'.
The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and description. The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called 'Saying Goodbye to Sally', achieves a fitting conclusion for the book – and a resonant final statement of its theme.
Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love.
一个作家写什么往往和他本人的生活经历很有关系,孤独者写孤独,胜利者歌颂胜利,失败者为失败做注解,因为切身,往往有独到之处。理查德·耶茨的小说集《恋爱中的骗子》,就围绕一个主题而写———失意的人和失败的人生。 耶茨本人,就是一个典型的失败者,不仅生前籍籍无名...
评分 评分一个下午趴在床上一口气读完了几十页字码成的故事。不得不说的是,刚刚放下书的一刻我有点不知所措。这个充满负能量,除了房东太太外,每个人都用谎言来企图诉说自己才是弱者。男主人公,享受年轻女子的陪伴。怎奈囊中羞涩,只够支付一晚的春宵费。天知道他到底是出于对年轻少...
人与人永远无法彼此真正理解,无论看似多么亲密。
评分周末顺手就翻出一篇读读,断断续续看了一个年头。喜欢作者有所保留的情绪表达,他让萧索的生活在文字里保留原貌,让他自己看起来那么残忍又智慧。
评分一个个挣扎着的文艺青年。
评分写电影
评分bit vulgar though easy to read.
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