books by Blake Bailey (reading sixties richard)

books by Blake Bailey

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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

23 reviews
Blake Bailey

Picador, 2004

The Unrelieved Bleakness of Yates
Blake Bailey's "A Tragic Honesty" is a terrific, very readable biography that makes one appreciate an author who is rather hard for some of us to warm up to. That author is Richard Yates, the American novelist and short-story writer who was for a while considered the equal of Updike and Cheever, but who was then cruelly forgotten for years until a recent resurgence of interest. (As everyone now ...

Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey

Knopf, 2009

From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912?1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. ?I was born into no true class,? Cheever mused in his journal, ?and it was my decision, early in life, to insinuate myself into the middle class, like a ...

Zapatista

7 reviews
Blake Bailey

1st Books Library, 2000

I never knew about the war to the south.
This book is an adventure, a wild ride, a plane crash to avoid a forced military landing, grab the bags of money and run. A tale of a person displaced, going on a vacation and end up killing for a cause. If you have ever been an occasional traveler in Mexico this book throws out a whole new twist, while teaching you some history about the Chiapas Indians and the Zapatista movement.

Foods of the World: The Cooking of the British Isles

1 review
Adrian Bailey, The Editors Of Time-life Books

Time-Life, Incorporated, 1969

Pure Heart Food
Adrian Bailey loves his country, its people and their food. This must be true, given his loving approach to all in this book. Much more than a book of English recipes, the book paints a picture of British life in another time. Yet, as Bailey points out, the food lives on and can be had here or there. He stand with Kenneth Roberts and Lawrence Sanders as an author who can force you to put down ...

Cheever Part B: A Life (Library)
Bailey, Blake

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2009

In this luminous biography, Blake Bailey shows us the conflicted soul of a writer of timeless fiction. Though Cheevers groundbreaking work would earn him fame, it never wholly offset his anxieties and desperate loneliness.

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 16: TreeTops: More Stories A: The War Monkey (Treetops Fiction)
Anna Perera, Jon Blake, ...

Oxford University Press, 2005

"TreeTops Stories" have been given a fresh new look with new covers, a new "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover and new teaching materials. Please note levelling changes: most of these titles were originally packed as "Stage 16G"; "My Guinea Pig is Innocent" (which has now moved to "Stage 15 More Stories A") has been replaced with "Rat Squad" from "Stage 15E".

Sixties

4 reviews
Blake Bailey

First Glance Books, 1992

Absurdly wonderful!
This sadly neglected masterpiece should be brought back into print immediately. It is, to my mind, the definitive guide to a badly misrepresented decade. Mr. Bailey's writing is witty and readable throughout, never didactic or ponderous, and the lavish illustrations will satisfy even the most anti-literate coffeetable connoisseur. A wow.