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Liars in Love
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
September 15th 1982
by Delta
(first published August 1st 1982)
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Mettiamolo subito in chiaro: questo Bugiardi e innamorati non è, a mio avviso, il miglior Yates. Forse non è neppure un libro da consigliare, se il destinatario del consiglio non è un estimatore dell’autore, non di Revolutionary road ma di Eastern parade (chi coglie la leggera differenza è capace di capire senza altre parole quale sia per me il suo libro migliore). È un libro per chi preferisce i racconti ai romanzi, per chi magari ancora non conosce Yates e ha “paura” di approcciarlo per la pri...more
E tutti vissero.
E basta, perché il "felice e contenti" Yates lo lascia agli altri.
I protagonisti di questi sette racconti la felicità l'hanno inseguita, l'hanno perduta, la stanno forse ancora cercando, oppure si sono rassegnati a non incontrarla mai ma non vogliono ammetterlo.
Ed è per questo che Helen (scultrice e mamma divorziata), Susan (studentessa e figlia anaffettiva), Elizabeth (mamma di due bambini che decide di condividere casa con un'amica), Warren (marito abbandonato all'estero dalla...more
E basta, perché il "felice e contenti" Yates lo lascia agli altri.
I protagonisti di questi sette racconti la felicità l'hanno inseguita, l'hanno perduta, la stanno forse ancora cercando, oppure si sono rassegnati a non incontrarla mai ma non vogliono ammetterlo.
Ed è per questo che Helen (scultrice e mamma divorziata), Susan (studentessa e figlia anaffettiva), Elizabeth (mamma di due bambini che decide di condividere casa con un'amica), Warren (marito abbandonato all'estero dalla...more
Am I officially burned out on Yates? Perhaps. This couldn't get much more than a 'meh' out of me, mainly because the stories seem like re-runs of other stories/novels by Yates. Sculptress mother? Check. Cowardly soldier? Check. TB? Check. Middle class suburban life? Check. Alimony? Divorce? Creative writing? Soul crushing? Check by four. Also odd is how much these stories fly in the face of all advice given to short story writers. Most of them are basically 20 page novels, rather than short stor...more
Richard Yates: un nome, una garanzia.
Questo libro di racconti è come una medicina: la bevi, è amara, ma poi ti senti subito meglio.
Forse perché i personaggi dei racconti di Yates hanno in loro qualche frammento di noi, ma al loro confronto ci sembra di essere meno meschini, meno tristi, meno sfortunati, meno infantili.
Yates riesce a muovere i suoi personaggi magistralmente sulla scena, facendoti rimanere con il naso incollato alle pagine fino alla fine, anche se ti sta raccontando di gente qualu...more
Questo libro di racconti è come una medicina: la bevi, è amara, ma poi ti senti subito meglio.
Forse perché i personaggi dei racconti di Yates hanno in loro qualche frammento di noi, ma al loro confronto ci sembra di essere meno meschini, meno tristi, meno sfortunati, meno infantili.
Yates riesce a muovere i suoi personaggi magistralmente sulla scena, facendoti rimanere con il naso incollato alle pagine fino alla fine, anche se ti sta raccontando di gente qualu...more
Through this collection of short stories, Yates explores the crushing nature of dysfunctional relationships with poeticism and black humour. If you want to read about protagonists getting caught up in relationships defined by histrionics and drama (like the soldier who is on leave from WWII caught up with a young prostitute with borderline personality disorder) then these are the short stories for you. But be warned - they can be bleak. Notwithstanding this darkness, Yates' writing is highly ori...more
(This is for both Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love, which I read as a single volume.)
The first couple stories are fantastic, but then themes and characters and events start repeating. Not as part of some connected whole, but like he is recycling things that he used in other stories. I'm not opposed in principle, but it really takes me out of the moment when I see a characters that bears strong similarities to one from another story (or another book of his) that is doing the same thin...more
The first couple stories are fantastic, but then themes and characters and events start repeating. Not as part of some connected whole, but like he is recycling things that he used in other stories. I'm not opposed in principle, but it really takes me out of the moment when I see a characters that bears strong similarities to one from another story (or another book of his) that is doing the same thin...more
It's hard to fairly judge any of these stories--some of which are maybe a little rambly and loose--because I find myself completely and totally enthralled by the prose, and by the narrative voice, which isn't particularly "voicey" or even all that dramatic, just very clear-eyed and exacting and kind of enviable. This is the kind of book I want to read a couple pages from every morning before I start writing.
Cборник - 7 рассказов и повестей. Оптимистичны с переменчивым успехом. Очень жизненно, детально, с упором на переживания и мысли героев. В целом, понравилось.
Yates has a very limited number of plots and scenarios, but somehow they give unfailing entertainment
Wasn't crazy about one story, the rest were the Yates I know and love- everyday people thinking life should be better than it really is. Equally sad and poignant, especially the compassionate leave story.
I love me some Richard Yates
Liars in Love is my favorite story of them all. Human frailty... it's more like cowardice and irresponsibility
Well sometimes I hate everything all the time always, too, Mr. Yates. We can agree on that sometimes.
It took a second Yates book for me to realise: this man writes about the impossibility of two things: unconditional love and acceptable real estate.
[2012]The number of themes Yates uses is rather limited, but he knows what he's doing with them. The people in his stories are always such messes, and there's never any hope, and the love is never happy, and nobody is ever satisfied. And although the stories tend to blend together a bit after a while, it's all rather brilliant. Saying Goodbye to Sally and Liars in Love were my favourites, I think.
Way too dated to be enjoyable. Or am I just a pleb? Meh.
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As always, Richard Yates eloquently reminds us just how miserable relationships can make us.
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Richard Yates, or Dickie, shone bright upon the publication of his first novel, Revolutionary Road, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. It drew unbridled praise and branded Yates an important, new writer. Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Sytron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic....more
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