《年轻的心在哭泣》迈克尔·达文波特是个从二战欧洲战场退伍的年轻人，踌躇满志，梦想成为诗人、剧作家。他清高，为艺术而活，不愿染指妻子的钱，可还是得为一家商业杂志撰文来维持他的写诗爱好。妻子露茜异常富有，却一直不明白自己想要什么，只觉得别人似乎都比她快乐。随着时间的推移，眼看着别人功成名就而自己却仍默默无闻，这对夫妻的焦虑与日俱增。他们过去的幸福生活也被私通与孤立所吞噬，而他们自以为已经逃离的单调生活如同梦魇一样挥之不去。在这部小说中，耶茨再次选择了他最为擅长的破碎的美国梦为其主题，用现实的重锤敲碎了梦想的天真，带来无以比拟的钝痛，让人读之感受到时代的感伤与个
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理查德•耶茨（Richard Yates，1926—1992）是“焦虑时代的伟大作家”。作为二十世纪中叶的美国主流生活的忠实记录者，批评家们将他与契诃夫、菲茨杰拉德、约翰•契弗相提并论。他的处女作长篇小说《革命之路》甫一推出即获成功，获得美国国家图书奖提名。1962年他的第一部短篇小说集《十一种孤独》出版，更被誉为“纽约的《都柏林人》”。耶茨的作品曾获《纽约时报书评》、《君子》、《华盛顿邮报》等媒体的好评，有四本小说入选“每月一书俱乐部”。此外他还有一大批作家拥趸，其中不乏著名作家，如库尔特•冯内古特、安德烈•杜波依斯，他的作品也影响了许多作家，如雷蒙德•卡佛，他被誉为“作家中的作家”。人的困顿。
Young Hearts Cry Michael Davenport is a young man who retired from the European theater of World War II and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He lived for his art and didn't want to touch his wife's money, but he still wrote for a business magazine to support his love of poetry. Lucy, a very rich wife, never knew what she wanted, except that everyone else seemed happier than she was. As time went on, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they remained anonymous. Their happy lives are consumed by fornication and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as its theme, crushing the innocence of the dream with the heavy hammer of reality, bringing incomparable dull pain, and making people feel the sentimental and personal of The Times
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Richard Yates (1926-1992) was "the great writer of the Age of anxiety". As a faithful chronicler of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century, critics have compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald and John Cheever. His debut novel, Revolutionary Road, was an immediate success and was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1962, his first collection of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Solitude, was published, and has been called "New York's Dubliners". Yates's work has been acclaimed by the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Washington Post and others, and four novels have been selected for the Book of the Month Club. He also had a large following of famous writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Andre Du Bois, and his work influenced many writers, such as Raymond Carver, who was known as a "writer's writer". The plight of man.
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