"Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" is a delicious work.

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	• 11 Kinds of Loneliness Yates Greenwood Press, 1972 - 230 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews
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"Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" is a delicious work.

Richard Yates was a brilliant writer of novels and short stories who was universally admired by his peers including--among others--Tennessee Williams, John Updike, and Phillip Roth. His novel "Revolutionary Road" was considered groundbreaking when it was published in 1961. Never commercially successful after that, Yates continued to write and taught on a number of college campuses including the University of Iowa Writing Program. "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" is delicious.

A Masterful Collection

These stories will stay with me for the rest of my life, particularly "No Pain Whatsoever." Yates was a tremendously underrated writer, but hopefully won't stay that way. A must-read.

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A Writer's Writer

This collection is hands-down one of the best short-story collections I've read. Yates is a no-nonsense, straight-talking, highly skilled story teller with an intelligent voice who knows how to keep the reader genuinely engaged without sacrificing emotional depth or subtlety. Each and every story in this book is a winner: touching, honest, well-told, deeply felt. The collection is also a refreshing change from the morass of badly written contemporary short fiction that has taken the very worst from the minimalist movement (sometimes less IS less...). These are stories with meat on their bones--but no fat. HIGHLY recommended.

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Only the Lonely

To put it simply: you must read this book. It is the most depressing, uplifting, poignant, ironic book I've read. That may seem like a contradiction in terms, but if you've read the book you know what I'm talking about.

Richard Yates writes about ordinary men, women and children -- "loners" leading solitary existences. A few stories, such as "Doctor Jack-O'-Lantern" and "Jody Rolled the Bones", are filled with bittersweet humor; others, such as "Fun With a Stranger" are downright sad. But don't think Yates is some depressed, manic-depressive writer, because he's not. Rather, his words, his characters strike you in a way you never thought possible, making you want to read them over and over again.

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Yeats has got it down

this collection of short stories has been written by a man who may not have, when he initially began writing, floored his readers with an abundance of talent. but it is obvious that mr. yates has done his homework; his writing is tight and the words tremble with emotion. this is the work of a man who has spent a lot of time reading and revising and reworking until it felt just right. on most of the stories he hits all the right notes. the ones about tuberculosis stick in my mind the most with a particular resonance; he's got a feel for the throb of the misunderstood, the lonely. the problem with these stories is that their focus is on just that. mr. yates' title may've been eleven kinds of loneliness but i wish he hadn't felt as though it were necessary to confine himself to that topic. the last story really shows the flair he has for longer, more broad fiction; and because of this, the reader leaves slightly disappointed because the rest of the stories seem to be the work of a bitter man obsessed with bitterness. this wouldn't be a bad thing if the bitter man weren't capable of so much more.

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