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A great American comeback The novelist Richard Yates seemed to be heading for oblivion, says Christopher Tayler, but now his true merit is slowly being recognised
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A Tragic Honesty:
The Life and Work
of Richard Yates
by Blake Bailey
Methuen, pounds 25, 675pp
*T pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
"TO WRITE SO well and then to be forgotten is a terrifying
legacy," Stewart O'Nan wrote of Richard Yates in 1999. Yates had died
in 1992 with few of his books in print, and for much of his career he
had been famous among writers chiefly for not being as famous as he
should have been. Those in the know kept his name alive as "a sort of
cultural-literary secret handshake", but his work seemed destined for
oblivion, and soon.
During the last few years, ...
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