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A Special Providence by Richard Yates (Paperback, 2008)

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Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. He is the author of eight other works, including the novelsA Good School ,The Easter Parade, andDisturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories,Eleven Kinds of Loneliness andLiars in Love.

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A moving, ironic and often heart breaking exploration of post-war America by the author of Revolutionary Road Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life.From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of post-war America, at odds with its own identity, striving to combine prosperity and ideals, mercilessly exposed in the attempt to do so. At once tender and ironic, bitterly sad and achingly funny, A Special Providence is the second novel by the author of Revolutionary Road.