Cold Spring Harbor

Author: Richard Yates

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Price : 12.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780099518532
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Vintage Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.15
Publication date : February 2008
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm X 12mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Pages : 192
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All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles...In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover, families exert a hold as tight as fate, and every way out only ends up back home.

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A brilliantly written exploration of youth and self-delusion by the author of Revolutionary Road

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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