There is a little over a year, I discovered cinema through an American novelist Richard Yates. I had read, loved and chronicled his first novel, The Window Panoramic . A nice visitor, Reka, then left me a comment in which she quoted her second novel, I promised myself to read. It is - finally - been done.
Eleven stories of loneliness is a collection of short stories, which, as its title suggests, explores different facets of loneliness, whether real or domestic; loneliness of the child at school, lonely man in the army, the couple's loneliness, isolation of the sick, the lonely writer ... Through these portraits, the author gives us a realistic view and disenchanted American 50s.
I can now confirm the echoes of my visit enjoyable to read, because even if the enthusiasm varied from news to another.
A third novel, Easter Parade would be published in French this fall. Continued ...
