Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Contemporaries)
Publisher: Vintage
Published: March 10, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780307455963
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Literary; Literature & Fiction -- Women's Fiction -- Domestic Life
Description: In Young Hearts Crying, Yates movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II in Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation.