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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the... -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
Liars in Love by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters,... -
A Special Providence by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of battle principally... -
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his... -
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking... -
Via revolucionaria by Richard Yates 9788466331456
Booksplease Price: $36.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788466331456Author Richard YatesFormat PaperbackImprint -
A Good School by Richard Yates 9780099518587
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him with one of his colleagues. Edith Stone is the daughter of the... -
Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. Behind him, he has a troubled adolescence, a failed marriage and a... -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780375708442
RRP: $45.22Booksplease Price: $29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375708442Author... -
Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his... -
Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates 9780385295963
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $30.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385295963Author Richard YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518785 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $9.19Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life... -
The Suburban Novels of Richard Yates by Jiří Flajšar 9783111616674
RRP: $216.58Booksplease Price: $140.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 9780099518624 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.71Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
After Gregory by Austin Wright
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the... -
A Study Guide for Richard Yates's the Canal by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375390095
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $23.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates 9781841593173
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the... -
Disciples by Austin Wright
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Harry Field, an elderly professor looking after his baby granddaughter, allows Oliver, the child's absentee father, to take her to the park. Only too late do Harry and his daughter Judy realise that... -
Telling Time by Austin Wright
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go... -
Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates by Kate Charlton-Jones 9780817358594
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $55.24Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American LiteratureSince his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes's... -
Trilobites & Other Stories by Breece Pancake
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.'It... -
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson 9780099771012 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.71The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying... -
Elaine Will Self 9781804710470
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.56'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara 9780099518327
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frighteningly in the mind' John... -
A Long Island Story Rick Gekoski 9781786893420
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
Tony and Susan: Now the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright 9781848870222 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.71Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the... -
Nocturnal Animals: Film tie-in originally published as Tony and Susan by Austin Wright 9781786490186 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $5.50The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.Many... -
The New York Stories by John O'Hara
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording... -
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces... -
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.82Thomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel is based on Mann's own... -
The Best of Everything Rona Jaffe 9780141196312
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Rona Jaffe's frank, scandalous and thrilling 1958 novel, The Best of Everything follows a group of young women as they negotiate office romances, workplace politics, broken engagements, tiny... -
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe 9780141196312 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.74Rona Jaffe's frank, scandalous and thrilling 1958 novel, The Best of Everything follows a group of young women as they negotiate office romances, workplace politics, broken engagements, tiny... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by... -
All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a... -
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld-"A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans but for anyone who wants a better... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9780752864365
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.28'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe'It is no accident that...