COMING APRIL 6, 2021 …
“One of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory.”
—Associated Press
"An outstanding biography."
—Kirkus (starred review)
“I wept and railed, marveled and shook my fist at the sky. 'Just make me interesting,' Roth asked of Bailey, and this unputdownable page-turner does just that.”
—Mary Karr
FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“Enthralling ... Achingly honest .... A fearless, deeply felt and often frightening book.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“[A] vivid, tender book [written with] a novelist's flair. …A sleek, dramatic, authentically lurid story fueled by a candid fraternal rivalry.”
— The New York Times
FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“The arrival of Blake Bailey’s great, perceptive, heartbreaking Yates biography is a landmark event.”
– The New York Times
“Compulsively readable . . . Indispensable . . . Excellent in itself, it records, with photographic accuracy, where Yates’s obsessively autobiographical fiction originated.”
– New York Times Book Review
WINNER, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER, FRANCIS PARKMAN PRIZE
FINALIST, PULITZER PRIZE
FINALIST, JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE
“A definitive, Dickensian rendering of a complete and complicated life, addictively readable and long overdue.”
— The New York Times
FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
“Brilliant and gripping ... A great American biography.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Scrupulous and compassionate... a chilling addition to the museum of literary failure, to be mounted somewhere in the long hall between 'The Crack-Up' and 'The Shining.'”
— The New York Times Book Review
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