Cold Spring Harbor - Softcover

Yates, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413774821 ISBN 13: 9780413774828

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their families. Fated to play out the mistakes of their parents, Evan and Rachel quickly discover the betrayal behind the dream, and desperately try every avenue of escape, only to find that all paths lead back to the small Long Island coastal town of Cold Spring Harbor, and to each other. But if there is no better chronicler than Yates of the quiet tragedy of thwarted suburban lives, Cold Spring Harbor is a testament to the absolute necessity of dreaming; for Yates's protagonists, hope may be all there is.

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Review

"Yates writes with a sympathy so clear-hearted that it often feels like nostalgia for his own youth, and yet he is also thoroughly uncompromising in revealing their capacity for self-delusion, their bewilderment in the face of failure" (New York Times)

"So consistently well-written, just, unsentimental and sympathetic" (Washington Post)

"Read and weep" (Kate Atkinson)

"Yates's prose is as elegant and minimalist as ever... He simply tells the story - in easily comprehensible but perfectly pitched language" (Leyla Sanai www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com)

Book Description

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413774821
• ISBN 13: 9780413774828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190