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This was simply first-rate storytelling by one of the finest American writers of the 20th century. View all 16 comments. O forse solo di fingere di sognare? View all 4 comments. It took a second Yates book for me to realise: May 10, Lostaccount rated it really liked it. Not as good as Yates' other collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, but still great reading. The stories in this collection are all about relationships that fizzle out and die. I love this guy's writing style and his characters are always interesting.
Jun 25, Clara rated it it was amazing Shelves: I feel like climbing up to a rooftop and shouting into a very loud microphone: So alas, I am left to try and muddle through my mind and work out just why it is that I think this brilliant author is quite so brilliant. And as a female, reading an author whose protagonists are predominantly male, this is surprising. Though the women in these stories may occupy less page time than the men, their emotions and desires, and the intricacies of their behaviors are captured with no less sensitivity and nuance.
The criticism of some, that Yates just revisits the same material over and over again, is not an unfair one. Diversity of theme is a claim that could never be made of him, and these seven stories are filled with all the loneliness, misunderstanding, and relationships once full of promise that ultimately go nowhere, that one would expect. Yet more than his previous collection, so too does "Liars in Love" reflect a preoccupation with childhood, and one can't help but feel that Yates is reaching back into his own past to look at the ways in which the adults around him made an impact.
Liars in Love has ratings and 46 reviews. Steven said: As a fan of the short- story, one thing I find absolutely paramount is the importance of charac. Liars in Love is a collection of short stories by Richard Yates, published in Contents[edit]. "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired"; "A Natural Girl"; "Trying Out for The.
One such story is "Trying Out for the Race", a depression-era tale in which two divorced mothers and their children move in together as a way to pool their resources. Full of tender observations of the forced coming together of strangers under one roof, and the relationships - so different from each other - between the children and their mothers, this is a favorite for me. The titular story too, which visits the more recognisable Yatesian themes of marriage gone awry and blind, hurried love, also stands out. But in all of them, each character - from the main to the very minor - is wraught so finely and with such seeming ease, that despite the common thread running like a pulse through them all, the stories are distinct from each other and grip the reader in their own individual way.
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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. Aug 30, Sarah rated it really liked it Shelves: I love me some Richard Yates. Vite intere in poche pagine.
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Una riflessione costante su relazioni di coppie, la vita in casa con o senza i figli e l'alcohol. Impeccabile "Addio a Sally", la prima pagina di "Oh Giuseppe, Jul 02, Patrick rated it it was amazing. The first half of stories I liked less than the second half. But I think the title story and the whole second half is some of my favorite writing. Mar 11, Neelakshi Chakraborty rated it really liked it.
Every short story is a jewel - finely-chiseled and precious, its luster almost vulnerable. Richard Yeats at his best, his crisp style offset by a soothing delineation of passion, sadness, melancholy and tenderness. The warped and twisted frailties of human beings emerge at every point but there is no over-riding sentiment here.
The economic style Yeats uses is indicative of one of contemporary fiction's strongest talents. He is a humanist at heart, who can write about failed marriages, disastrous Every short story is a jewel - finely-chiseled and precious, its luster almost vulnerable. He is a humanist at heart, who can write about failed marriages, disastrous relationships, failures at society's margins and artifice without bitterness. You can almost hear him mocking gently at the grand delusions people harbour, only to be reminded again and again of how de-centered we all actually are. His best moments come in unassuming prose and as champagne moments - smooth and sparkling and gentle - perhaps marginal to the entire lot, yet wrought with lyrical sadness.
He tried to hide it but there was no disguising the awful bloat and pucker of a face in tears. We took the stamps and ran home without looking back. There is no overtly dramatic effect yet there is no effort to reign in the beautiful mess of unruly moments. All I can say is, i have become a fan of his.
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The Easter Parade and now this- need to get his complete works soon. Every song is the same, but it's a great song, so who cares? Take the first story in this collection: With its wannabe sculptress mother, ashamed son and deceitful English lover, it's practically a rewrite of the novels and stories that came before it, with the addition this time of a commission from President Roosevelt a commission which inevitably leads to disappointment.
The sculptress mother returns ag Richard Yates: The sculptress mother returns again in 'Regards at Home', drunk at a party this time and accidentally showing her underwear, just like she did in 'A Special Providence'. All the same elements reshuffled. Only a writer of Yate's skill could get away with it and remain so vibrant and readable. The other stories from the collection stray further from home, but never beyond settings encountered in his novels, with trips to Europe in WWII and s LA, all the time displaying the author's impressive knack for getting inside his character's heads.
It might be familiar, but it's expertly executed. Dec 10, Justin Evans rated it it was ok Shelves: Am I officially burned out on Yates? Middle class suburban life? 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 Am I officially burned out on Yates? Most of them are basically 20 page novels, rather than short stories.
I dislike writing-school short stories, and, since Yates is meant to be the greatest short story writer of his age, this book should really say something about that whole racket. All of that said, the title story was great, as was Trying out for the Race. Saying Goodbye to Sally has its moments.
And Yates' narrative voice - he only has one - is all time great. But overall, I think I would've been better off re-reading 11 Kinds View all 5 comments. Un po' come tutti noi del resto, o sbaglio? Apr 12, Claire Lehmann rated it it was amazing Shelves: 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 Through this collection of short stories, Yates explores the crushing nature of dysfunctional relationships with poeticism and black humour. Notwithstanding this darkness, Yates' writing is highly original and moving. He deserves 5 stars. Mar 24, Mike Ingram rated it really liked it.
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.
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As always, Richard Yates eloquently reminds us just how miserable relationships can make us. Jun 09, verbava rated it really liked it Shelves: Raccolta di racconti brevi, scritta come al solito magnificamente.
See All Goodreads Deals…. Carol soon finds she hates London, and the new living arrangements do nothing to cement an already crumbling marriage. Return to Book Page. Not as part of some connected whole, but like he is recycling things that he used in other stories. There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
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Amaro e, purtroppo, spesso vero. Jan 23, Annette Rowena rated it really liked it. Yates has a way with the words he lines together; it makes you feel those emotions - sadness, loss, bittersweet love. I might not pick this up again, but it was a worthwhile read. Bleak stories, excellent writing.
The literary equivalent of a Hopper painting. The seven stories in Liars in Love are longer in form, they breathe a bit more than his earlier stories. There are several touching moments laced throughout. Yates has the ability to take the reader's breath away. Consider the first sentence of the story, A Natural Girl. In the spring of her Sophomore year when she was twenty, Susan Andrews told her father very calmly that she didn't love him anymore.
Regards at Home is probably my favorite short story in this collection, mainly because it provides an interesting comparison and contrast to the novel Revolutionary Road , with the added bonus of a rather grumpy mother thrown into the mix. Here's how the narrator, a young man named Bill Grove, describes watching his mother having her teeth extracted. It made my toes clench and my scalp prickle: A page later, when his then girlfriend calls his mother an "art bum," he defends her, and he spends the story trying to keep the two women away from each other.
He eventually marries this girlfriend, and unfulfilled at his job, he daydreams about moving to Paris, but his wife becomes pregnant. All the while, he and his wife become friends with a co-worker named Dan Rosenthal. Dan remains stuck caring for his own mother and siblings after the death of his father and develops a crush on Bill's wife. In the final scenes, Bill, his wife and child are on the cusp of realizing his dream; they are boarding an ocean liner to move to Paris.