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The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’

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The Life and Work of Richard Yates

Bailey's only success had been with non fiction, most notably a spy magazine article about how the revlon tycoon, ron pearlman's wife at the time, terrorized her home. In nineteen ninety nine, bailey found yatess daughter, monica, who liked that bailey wasn't an academic. She co operated with bailey and he got a book deal. The life and work of richard yates was published in july two thousand three. Bailey said, for the next 14 months, i spent every waking hour, except when i was eating or deficating, doing yates a tragic honesty.

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