Bibliographical Description
89.04.W060: Yates – Eleven Kinds of Loneliness : Short Stories
ELEVEN | KINDS OF | LONELINESS | Short Stories By | RICHARD YATES | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. | NEW YORK
120 leaves, pp. [6] 1–3 4-20 21–23 24-38 39–41 42-58 59–61 62-73 74–77 78-93 94–97 98-112 113–115 116-125 126–129 130-144 145–147 148-168 169–171 172-188 189–191 192-230 [4]
Edition statement: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, April 1989
Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b ‘Also by Richard Yates’, π2a title-page, π2b imprint, π3a table of contents, π3b blank, 1-230 Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: 1-20 ‘Doctor Jack-o’-lantern’, 21-38 ‘The Best of Everything’; 39-58 ‘Jody Rolled the Bones’, 59-73 ‘No Pain Whatsoever’, 74 blank, 75-93 ‘A Glutton for Punishment’, 94 blank, 95-112 ‘A Wrestler with Sharks’, 113-125 ‘Fun with a Stranger’, 126 blank, 127-144 ‘The B.A.R. Man’, 145-168 ‘A Really Good Jazz Piano’, 169-188 ‘Out with the Old’, 189-230 ‘Builders’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a- χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Theo Rudnak; exterior author photo by Jill Krementz.
Copyright: ©1957, 1961, 1962. ISBN: 0-679-72221-1 / 9780679722212. Price: $8.95. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness was first published by Little Brown and Co. 1962.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Mere mention of its title is enough to produce quick, affirmative nods from a whole generation of readers.…Yates created…what is almost the New York equivalent of Dubliners. – The New York Times Book Review
- Extravagantly gifted…Yates’ eye and ear are, I believe, unsurpassed; I know of no writer whose senses are in more admirable condition. It is they that make his characters live, make these stories move and beat—they…and the sure perfection of his writing. – Esquire
- This collection of short stories—all written between 1951 and 1961—became a cult book for a generation. Today it seems even more powerful. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver with visions of immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting, subtly shaded mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true—and just beginning to ring a little hollow.
- The stories are sharply focused, beautifully written and powerfully moving. I know of no collection like it. Deservedly it has become a classic. – Ann Beattie
- Vintage Books is proud to announce the publication of this and two other Richard Yates titles—Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade—in Vintage Contemporaries.