Kan bestilles | Liars in Love

With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.»Liars in Love» is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth: Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in ‘Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired’. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to «pool their resources» and live together, with their children in ‘Trying Out for the Race’. A young American soldier’s too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn’t seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in ‘A Compassionate Leave’. The seven stories in this collection showcase Yates’ extraordinary gift for observation and . The last and longest of them, a rich, lucid, and compelling piece called ‘Saying Goodbye to Sally’, achieves a fitting conclusion for the book – and a resonant final statement of its theme.