Liars in Love

Resumen del libro

Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth:
Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to pool their resources and live together, with their children in 'Trying Out for the Race'. A young American soldier's too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn't seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in 'A Compassionate Leave'.

The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and description. The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called 'Saying Goodbye to Sally', achieves a fitting conclusion for the book and a resonant final statement of its theme.

Biografía del autor

Richard Yates (Nueva York, 1926-Alabama, 1992) es el gran cronista de la clase media estadounidense que vivió tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando falleció su obra estaba descatalogada, pero después de que autores de la talla de Richard Ford y Raymond Carver lo reivindicaran como influencia, Yates ha terminado por convertirse en un referente de la literatura estadounidense contemporánea. Sus principales obras son Vía Revolucionaria (1961), adaptada al cine por Sam Mendes, Las hermanas Grimes (1976), el libro de cuentos Once maneras de sentirse solo (1962), Una providencia especial (1969) y Cold Spring Harbor (1986), estas tres últimas publicadas por RBA.