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Richard Yates : A Novel by Tao Lin (2010, Trade Paperback)
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In a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. His guilt and anger builds in response until they find themselves hurtling out of control and afraid to let go. Lins trademark minimalism takes on a new, sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative like never before --until it is almost, in fact, too late.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMelville House Publishing
ISBN-101935554158
ISBN-139781935554158
eBay Product ID (ePID)102969338
Product Key Features
Book TitleRichard Yates : a Novel
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Absurdist, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorTao Lin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.6 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-017972
Reviews"[G]enuinely funny...accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world." --Charles Bock, The New York Times "Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction." -- David Haglund, The London Review of Books " Richard Yates is neither pretentious nor sneering nor reflexively hip. It is simply a focused, moving, and rather upsetting portrait of two oddballs in love." --Danielle Dreillinger, The Boston Globe "[A] batty and precisely penned novel....[Tao Lin] has, in methodically stacked increments, become a legitimate writing presence." -- Carrie Battan, The Boston Phoenix "[Lin''s] lean and often maniacal sentences propel the work forward with a slanted momentum. What first seems like a stock tale of romance gone sour evolves into a parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." -- Time Out New York " Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes--extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations--that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." -- James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces " Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it''s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." --Clancy Martin, author of How To Sell "[ Richard Yates ] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You''ve never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." --Daniel Handler, author of Adverbs "It would be easy to say that Richard Yates is Tao Lin''s best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it''s not-- Richard Yates only proves that Tao''s work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to ''best'' or ''worst.''" --HTMLGIANT "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." --Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You "Do you read Tao Lin and think ''I love this! What is it?'' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." --Lore Segal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize nominated Shakespeare''s Kitchen "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." --Emily Gould, author of And The Heart Says Whatever "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." -- Paste Magazine "A master of understatement-or, rather, of statement." -- Vice Magazine "A deadpan literary trickster." -- The New York Times "Lin''s fiction is a wonderfully deadpan joke." -- The Independent "Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated." --Sam Anderson, New York Magazine "[A] parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." -- Time Out New York "Lin''s sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights." -- Publishers Weekly "Meet literature''s Net-savvy new star." -- Salon "There is danger and sadness in his work, but not defeat." --Hillel Italie, The Associated Press, "[G]enuinely funny...accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world." -The New York Times "Richard Yatesis neither pretentious nor sneering nor reflexively hip. It is simply a focused, moving, and rather upsetting portrait of two oddballs in love." -The Boston Globe "Richard Yatesis a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes-extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations-that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." -James Frey, author ofBright Shiny MorningandA Million Little Pieces "Richard Yatesis hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." -Clancy Martin, author ofHow To Sell "[Richard Yates] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." -Daniel Handler, author ofAdverbs "It would be easy to say thatRichard Yatesis Tao Lin's best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it's not-Richard Yatesonly proves that Tao's work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to 'best' or 'worst.'" -HTMLGIANT "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." -Miranda July, author ofNo One Belongs Here More Than You "Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." -Lore Segal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize nominatedShakespeare's Kitchen "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." -Emily Gould, author ofAnd The Heart Says Whatever "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." -Paste Magazine "A master of understatementor, rather, of statement." -Vice Magazine "A deadpan literary trickster." -The New York Times "Lin's fiction is a wonderfully deadpan joke." -The Independent "Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated." -Sam Anderson, New York Magazine "[A] parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." -Time Out New York "Lin's sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights." -Publishers Weekly "Meet literature's Net-savvy new star." -Salon "There is danger and sadness in his work, but not defeat." -Hillel Italie, Associated Press, "Richard Yatesis hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." (Clancy Martin, author ofHow to Sell) "Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes-extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations-that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." -James Frey "It would be easy to say that Richard Yates is Tao Lin's best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it's notRichard Yates only proves that Tao's work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to 'best' or 'worst.'" -HTMLGIANT Praise for Tao Lin's Previous Work Praise for Tao Lin's Previous Work "Trancelike and often hilarious […] Lin's writing is reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis, but there is also something going on here that is more profoundly peculiar, even Beckettian […] The text is conscientiously scoured of narrative 'purpose', 'characterisation', and anything else that would smack of novelistic bullshit. What is left is an attitude, a mood, a comically despairing abandoning of literary ego." -The Guardian "A deadpan literary trickster." -New York Times "A revolutionary." -The Stranger "Deeply smart, funny, and head-over-heels dedicated." -Sam Anderson,New York Magazine "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." -Emily Gould "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass-from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." -Miranda July "Tao Lin's sly, forlorn, deadpan humor jumps off the page...his prose retains the energy of an outlaw [...] will delight fans of everyone from Mark Twain to Michelle Tea." -San Francisco Chronicle "Stimulating and exciting [...] It doesn't often happen that a debuting writer displays not only irrepressible talent but also the ability to undermine the conventions of fiction and set off in new directions. Tao Lin, who is 24, does it." -San Francisco Bay Guardian "[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is scathingly funny for being so spare [...] just might be the future of literature." -Austin Chronicle "[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is the purest example so far of the minimalist aesthetic as it used to be enunciated." -Michael Silverblatt,Bookworm "[Shoplifting from American Apparel] is somehow both the funniest and the saddest book I've read in a long time." -Michael Schaub,Bookslut "Full of melancholy, tension, and hilarity [...] Lin is a master of pinpointing the ways in which the Internet and text messages can quell loneliness, while acknowledging that these faceless forms of communication probably created that loneliness to begin with." -Boston Phoenix "You don't think, 'I like this guy,' or 'I really dis, "[G]enuinely funny...accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world." -Charles Bock, The New York Times "Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction." - David Haglund, The London Review of Books " Richard Yates is neither pretentious nor sneering nor reflexively hip. It is simply a focused, moving, and rather upsetting portrait of two oddballs in love." -Danielle Dreillinger, The Boston Globe "[A] batty and precisely penned novel....[Tao Lin] has, in methodically stacked increments, become a legitimate writing presence." - Carrie Battan, The Boston Phoenix "[Lin''s] lean and often maniacal sentences propel the work forward with a slanted momentum. What first seems like a stock tale of romance gone sour evolves into a parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." - Time Out New York " Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes-extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations-that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." - James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces " Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." -Clancy Martin, author of How To Sell "[ Richard Yates ] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." -Daniel Handler, author of Adverbs "It would be easy to say that Richard Yates is Tao Lin's best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it's not- Richard Yates only proves that Tao's work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to 'best' or 'worst.'" -HTMLGIANT "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." -Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You "Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." -Lore Segal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize nominated Shakespeare's Kitchen "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." -Emily Gould, author of And The Heart Says Whatever "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." - Paste Magazine "A master of understatementor, rather, of statement." - Vice Magazine "A deadpan literary trickster." - The New York Times "Lin's fiction is a wonderfully deadpan joke." - The Independent "Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated." -Sam Anderson, New York Magazine "[A] parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." - Time Out New York "Lin's sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights." - Publishers Weekly "Meet literature''s Net-savvy new star." - Salon "There is danger and sadness in his work, but not defeat." -Hillel Italie, The Associated Press, "Richard Yatesis a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes-extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations-that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." -James Frey, author ofBright Shiny MorningandA Million Little Pieces "Richard Yatesis hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." -Clancy Martin, author ofHow To Sell "[Richard Yates] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." -Daniel Handler, author ofAdverbs "It would be easy to say thatRichard Yatesis Tao Lin's best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it's not-Richard Yatesonly proves that Tao's work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to 'best' or 'worst.'" -HTMLGIANT "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." -Miranda July, author ofNo One Belongs Here More Than You "Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." -Lore Segal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize nominatedShakespeare's Kitchen "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." -Emily Gould, author ofAnd The Heart Says Whatever "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." -Paste Magazine "A master of understatementor, rather, of statement." -Vice Magazine "A deadpan literary trickster." -The New York Times "Lin's fiction is a wonderfully deadpan joke." -The Independent "Deeply smart, funny, and heads-over-heels dedicated." -Sam Anderson, New York Magazine "[A] parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." -Time Out New York "Lin's sympathetic fascination with the meaning of life is full of profound and often hilarious insights." -Publishers Weekly "Meet literature's Net-savvy new star." -Salon, "[G]enuinely funny...accurate, often filthy dispatches on what it is to be young and pushing against the world." -Charles Bock,The New York Times "Lin captures certain qualities of contemporary life better than many writers in part because he dispenses with so much that is expected of current fiction." -Peter Haglund,The London Review of Books "Richard Yatesis neither pretentious nor sneering nor reflexively hip. It is simply a focused, moving, and rather upsetting portrait of two oddballs in love." -Danielle Dreillinger,The Boston Globe "[A] batty and precisely penned novel....[Tao Lin] has, in methodically stacked increments, become a legitimate writing presence." -Carrie Battan,The Boston Phoenix "[Lin's] lean and often maniacal sentences propel the work forward with a slanted momentum. What first seems like a stock tale of romance gone sour evolves into a parable about the fickleness of human desire and the futility of detachment when it comes to love." -Time Out New York "Richard Yatesis a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes-extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations-that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys." -James Frey, author ofBright Shiny MorningandA Million Little Pieces "Richard Yatesis hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today." -Clancy Martin, author ofHow To Sell "[Richard Yates] is like a ninety-foot pigeon. You've never seen anything like it before, and yet it is somehow exactly like the world we live in." -Daniel Handler, author ofAdverbs "It would be easy to say thatRichard Yatesis Tao Lin's best book yet. Others have said it. Plainly, however, it's not-Richard Yatesonly proves that Tao's work, as it should, undoes any pretensions to 'best' or 'worst.'" -HTMLGIANT "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious." -Miranda July, author ofNo One Belongs Here More Than You "Do you read Tao Lin and think 'I love this! What is it?' Perhaps it is the curious effect of a radically talented, fecund and tender mind setting down a world sans sense or consequence." -Lore Segal, author of the Pulitzer-Prize nominatedShakespeare's Kitchen "Fascinating and articulate in a way that people my age (incl. um, like, you know, myself) rarely are." -Emily Gould, author ofAnd The Heart Says Whatever "Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore." -Paste Magazine "A master of understatementor, rather, of statement." -Vice Magazine "A deadpan literary trickster." -The New York Times "Lin's fiction is
SynopsisIn a startling change of direction, cult favorite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet. Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of an illicit affair between a very young writer and his even younger--in fact, under-aged--lover. As he seeks to balance work and love, she becomes more and more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. His guilt and anger builds in response until they find themselves hurtling out of control and afraid to let go. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new, sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative like never before --until it is almost, in fact, too late., In a startling change of direction, cult favourite Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerising yet. Named after the real-life writer Richard Yates, but, having nothing to do with him, Lin tracks the illicit affair between a very young writer and his underage lover. As the writer seeks to balance work and love, his young lover becomes ever more self-destructive in a play for his undivided attention. Lin's trademark minimalism takes on a new sharp-edged suspense here, zeroing in on a lacerating narrative.
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