Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates - ISBN: 9780099518556
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Successful life crumbles: a man’s breaking point changes everything.

Disturbing the Peace

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    1 August 2008

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Summary

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.

But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn’t coming home…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099518556
ISBN-10:0099518554
Author:Richard Yates
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:1 August 2008
Weight:194g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 18mm
Series:Vintage Classics
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Critics Review

A magnificent writer

A devastating story that won’t let go * Boston Globe *
A magnificent writer * The Times *

About The Author

Richard Yates

Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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