Young Hearts Crying

Name: Young Hearts Crying
Author: Richard Yates

by Richard Yates

Novel tracing a couple's romance, marriage, and estrangement across thirty years

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Richard Yates

American novelist and short-story writer whose Revolutionary Road is one of the great American novels about suburban disillusionment. His work, rediscovered in the 2000s, is now considered essential to the American literary tradition. He is the patron saint of quiet American disappointment.

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