Name: Disturbing the Peace
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Author: Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780099518556

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Author

Richard Yates

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Vintage

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0099518554

ISBN13

9780099518556

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Disturbing the Peace

Richard Yates (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Disturbing the Peace "

John 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 infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home...

Richard Yates

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He was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1926. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he contracted tuberculosis, and after the war, he worked as an advertising copywriter and screenwriter and wrote speeches for Robert Kennedy. His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962 and was adapted into a film by Sam Mendes in 2008. Yates wrote six more novels and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He taught writing at Columbia, Iowa, Wichita, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the New School for Social Research, and spent periods in Europe, Los Angeles, and New York. He died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1992.

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