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A Good School is a novel by American writer Richard Yates first published in 1978. [1] [2] It is set at a fictional Connecticut prep school in the early 1940s and relates the coming of age of a group of mainly WASP boys who at the same time prepare themselves if half-heartedly, to go to war immediately after graduation.
Yates's fiction was autobiographical in nature and his fiction included much of his own life. Yates was born in 1926, making him 16 in 1942, the same age as Phil Drake in Cold Spring Harbor; he was 17 in 1943, the same age as William Grove in A Good School; he was 18 in 1944, the same age as Robert Prentice in A Special Providence; he was 29 in 1955, the same age as Frank Wheeler in ...
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Pages in category "Novels by Richard Yates" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... A Good School; R. Revolutionary Road; S. A Special Providence
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. All of the stories also appeared in the posthumously released Richard Yates, The Collected Stories (2004), which includes other stories.
Richard Goodall becomes emotional Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, during a pep rally in his honor after he was crowned the America's Got Talent champion on Tuesday.
On June 11, 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling that opened the doors for after-school club meetings in public school buildings for Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF).
A Special Providence is a novel by the American writer Richard Yates. First published in 1969, Yates' third book concerns the dual exploits of an awkward infantry soldier in World War II and his mother, a deluded sculptor living in New York City .