First published in 1962, a year after "Revolutionary Road", this sublime collect
ion of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan off
ice workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, su
burban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting
mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true -
and just beginning to ring a little hollow.
