A mesmerising collection of stories from the superb Richard YatesFirst published in 1962 a year after Revolutionary Road this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers a cab driver seeking immortality frustrated would be novelists suburban men and their yearning neglected women Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s the era when the American dream was finally coming true and just beginning to ring a little hollow.