Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates from 1951 to 1961. It was published in 1962, a year following his first novel, Revolutionary Road. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness follows the lives of average Manhattan citizens: office workers, a cab driver with visions of immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, a suburban haunting, painting a subtly shaded mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true — and just beginning to ring a little hollow.

All of the stories in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness also appeared in the posthumously released Collected Stories of Richard Yates (2001).

Contents

• "Doctor Jack-o'-lantern"
• "The Best of Everything"
• "Jody Rolled The Bones"
• "No Pain Whatsoever"
• "A Glutton for Punishment"
• "A Wrestler with Sharks"
• "Fun with a Stranger"
• "The B.A.R. Man"
• "A Really Good Jazz Piano"
• "Out with the Old"
• "Builders"