It seems to me that he understands his characters’ self-delusions, portraying the cruelty of their false hopes and dashed dreams with real insight and humanity.
A good read but not nearly as good as the first Yates I read, "Revolutionary roads". Everyone who has ever failed, lied to themselves, understood their own mediocrity, or conjured illusions to make it through one more day can understand her pain.
It did not surprise me to read that Yates himself served in the war, since the narrative successfully evokes the fear and confusion which Bobby feels. In spite of this she blindly keeps faith and drags her son along in this hopeless travelling, moving and painful acts to keep up appearances. All the scenes and lines and inner thoughts are so unbelievably genuine and affecting, it becomes a tough book to put down, even at its most bleakEssentially 2 books in one, the first being an intense WWII story, the second an intense single-mother with a little boy story.
The structure is a little disjointed, but ultimately makes the end result incredibly powerful. His mother, Alice Prentice, plays a major role in his life, because growing up with only her made him change his view towards the world. Divorced mother and son stuggle to survive as the rug gets pulled from under her when things appear to be looking up. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure.” It contained the same frustrated, depressed characters I have met elsewhere in his work, and a portion of the book is set in New York suburbia, a common setting, yet it also contains a long narrative set on the battlefields in World War II Europe.
For me the final sentence of the book makes the whole read completely worthwhile. I loved his descriptions of 1940's America & I can see how influential this view has been on film - sort of like a literary Edward Hopper.
His mother, Alice Prentice has been waiting for her big break all her life. Yates seems to have had a very particular preoccupation with emotionally downtrodden people & their motivations & his describes them extremely well.
Seitenbetreiber und Verantwortlichkeit. May 3rd 2002 She increasingly slips into despair as the novel ends and Robert decides not to return home. He gets that, even in war, people are sometimes brave because they like the idea of being brave, not necessarily because they want to protect their country.
Did all lonely people have that problem?”“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. He seems to always be able to perfectly depict the desire for more. I was able to live vicariously through the book. The story telling accounts the life of Alice, a mother with artistic ambitions that won't pay the bill or the desired upper class life. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
* Alle Preise inkl. Both Robert and Alice are damaged souls. In Revolutionary Road, this reality was profoundly depressing (but still a great read). His mother, Alice Prentice has been waiting for her big break all her life.
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And maybe hope is a coping mechanism, but isn't it the least any of us deserve?Nice to see Yates leave the upper-middle class homes of the suburbs for the battlefields of world war II! As much as I love Richard Yates's books, I find them incredibly depressing to read & this was no exception. Book by Walter Mead, Author . You could easily skip the war parts without the second half of the book being diminished. His sentences flow beautifully and pull you into the depths of his characters.
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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Bitte aktivieren Sie deshalb Ihr Javascript. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow I’ve always loved this quote from the final act of Hamlet, and this passage was recently suggested to us by Anila Arshad-Mehmood ( @akneela ). All his usual preoccupations are here though: dilettante artists, men without any self-confidence to do what they want to, the stupidity and violence of most people. Diese Termine sind ohne Gewähr und können sich jederzeit ändern. It did not surprise me to read that Yates himself served in the war, since the narrative successfully evokes the fear and confusion which Bobby feels. I definitely recommend reading “ A Special Providence”. However, though this novel is just as well-written as his other works, this Yates novel left me feeling slightly cold, where I could not find any hidden depths of humanity that I have found in his other novels featuring sad-sack characters. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens. His mother, Alice Prentice, is 53. Special Providence packen so viel Melodie in ihren Tech-Jazz, dass schwelgerische Naturen hier voll auf ihre Kosten kommen – und sie schaffen es trotzdem, mindestens genausoviele Noten auf ein Album zu kriegen wie Dream Theater.
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