Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates.
Richard Yates follows a couple from courtship and marriage in the 1950s through divorce in the 1970s. Their artistic and personal ambitions become inseparable from the disappointments they inflict on one another.
The book rewards attention to the small evasions through which a life changes course. It asks how to distinguish an aspiration worth preserving from an image of ourselves that prevents us from seeing clearly.
Cover shown: Vintage paperback, ISBN 9780307455963. The purchase option below is the ebook edition.
