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A Special Providence

by Richard Yates · 1969

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Robert Prentice is 18. His mother, Alice Prentice,is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. In two deeply humanizing portraits, the great American writer Richard Yates crafts a novel of postwar America, at once at odds with its own sense of identity and mercilessly prohibitive to its like-minded citizens.

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Setting
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Subject
psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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