Cold Spring Harbor

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire.

Evan Shepard was born with good looks, bad luck, and a love for the open ro But it was on one such drive, with his father from rural Long Island into lower Manhattan, that Evan s life would be changed forever. When their car breaks down on a Greenwich Village street, Evan s father presses a random doorbell, looking for a telephone. Within hours, two families sharing equally complex and addled histories will come together. There will be flirtation. There will be a marriage. There will be a child, a new home But as Evan moves further into the uncharted land of manhood, as the women and men around him come into focus, he faces roads not taken and a journey not made in Richard Yates haunting exploration of human restlessness, family secrets, and a future shaped by them both.