About this title: Yates's second novel follows a young man, Robert Prentice, and his mother Alice, a sculptor. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable portrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even as life challenges them both.
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Description: New. Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas. GREAT BUY. Brand New From US Distributor. WE ARE A 5 STAR SELLER with OVER 3, 500, 000 BOOKS SOLD. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780307455956ISBN:0307455955
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Dell, N. Y.
Date Published: 1971
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover Price.95 cents-------Number 8201-----------The cover has light wear with a crease to the top corner......Normal yellowing to the pages..... read more
Description: Good. Good tight copy, pages clean & bright, cover/page edges slightly marked, with a little shelf wear to edges & page edges lightly sun damaged. Next working day post. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: METHUEN PUBLISHING LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780413775191ISBN:0413775194
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 304 pages. (304 pages) another great lost novel by the author of 'revolutionary road'. robert prentice is eighteen. his mother alice prentice is fifty-three. both are damaged souls: robert, by war, alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. in two deeply humanizing portraits, the great american writer crafts a novel of postwar america, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099518631ISBN:0099518635
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 336 pages. Robert prentice is 18, and his dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of europe. at home, his mother, alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. this novel describes post-war america, at odds with its identity, striving to combine prosperity and ideals, mercilessly exposed in the attempt to do so. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Full blue cloth binding, sunned along edges. Clean and unmarked first printing. 340pp. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, creases to front flap, in new mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very Good in Very Good jacket 340 p. 22 cm. 340pp. Has light wear. Internally Clean. Lang: English. Vols: 1, Wt: 2lbs. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Near fine copy in near fine(-) dust jacket; neat erasure on ffep & 3 leaves at front show impression of a [plastic] paperclip at top, but blue cloth unfaded; dj (normally brittle) has only 1/2" & 1" closed tears on front top edge w/ a closed nick to... 8vo 8 1/2"x 5 1/2" blue cloth w/ title blindstamped on front, silver lettering on spine; top edge chartreuse; fore edge untrimmed; 340 pgs; silver dust jacket w/ $5.95 on front flap, author photo by John P. Lowens at back; author's 2nd novel. ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: cloth
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: About Fine in price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. His third book, second novel. Very mild sunning to edges of book, less than usual. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. 340 pages First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Wendell Minor. His second novel and third book. Fine book with a touch of sunning to the top edge in a fine dust jacket with an invisible 1 & 1/2" closed tear to the bottom of the back cover along the gutter. A beautiful copy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: cloth
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: About Fine in close to Fine dustwrapper. His third book, second novel. Very mild sunning to edges of book, less than usual. Dustwrapper with the briefest of wear at spine tips. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Date Published: 27/07/2006
ISBN-13:9780413775191ISBN:0413775194
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Date Published: 27/07/2006
ISBN-13:9780413775191ISBN:0413775194
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
"I wonder if I would have given this 4 stars had I not just finished Yates' Revolutionary Road. Perhaps this is a good solid novel but it just faded next to that one. His characters, as in RR, are certainly drawn with great sympathy and artistry."
"I love Yates; everyone is always in a mid-life crisis and searching for meaning. Sometimes the people get a little self-centered, but the questions they ask apply to all of us."
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