A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
by Bailey, Blake
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0312287216
- ISBN 13
- 9780312287214
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About This Item
New York: Picador, 2003. Cloth, xii, 671 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Yates's life was a tragicomic disaster. The favorite child of an unstable, impecunious mother, Yates described his youth as a 'hysterical odyssey' through Depression-era America and beyond, from Westchester to Paris to Greenwich Village and back again, hounded by creditors every step of the way. Such an ordeal was the goad that made Yates determined to reveal the truth, no matter how bleak, that people like his mother tend to bury beneath layers of every delusion. "The most important thing," he liked to say, 'is not to tell or live a lie.' What emerges from these pages is a man of fascinating contradictions. A 'gentlemen of the old school' who was rarely seen in public without a Brooks Brothers suit and foulard tie, Yates could be a man of consummate integrity and charm. But his better self was constantly sabotaged by alcohol and mental illness, and even at the best of times - a prestigious stint in Hollywood, say, or as Robert Kennedy's speechwriter - some fresh calamity was always in the offing. A Tragic Honesty is an evocation of a man who in many ways embodied the struggles of the Great American Writer in the latter half of the twentieth century. The story of Richard Yates here stands as a singular reminder of what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity. / Blake Bailey is the author of a previous book, The Sixties, and has written for a number of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly publications. He lives in Waldo, Florida, with his wife Mary." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
- Author
- Bailey, Blake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0312287216
- ISBN 13
- 9780312287214
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo
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