Young Hearts Crying

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. He died in 1992.

"A wonderful writer with a merciless eye" Time Out "Bad couples, sad, sour marriages, young hopes corroded by suburban life... These are bitterly perceptive books" New Statesman "Yates is a truthful and ruthless writer. He intends to spare his readers nothing" Guardian