A Special Providence
Richard Yates
352 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0312420404
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Language: English
Publish: 1020409200000
AmericanAmericanaClassicsFictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsThe United States Of AmericaWar
Robert Prentice is 18. His mother, Alice Prentice, is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. 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.