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Hailed as "America's finest realistic novelist" by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life. Disturbing the Peace is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmerizing, it shines a brilliant, unwavering light into the darkest recesses of a man's psyche.
To all appearances, John Wilder has all the trappings of success, circa 1960: a promising career in advertising, a loving family, a beautiful apartment, even a country home. John's evenings are spent with associates at quiet Manhattan lounges and his weekends with friends at glittering cocktail parties. But something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since gone wrong. Something has disturbed John's fragile peace, and he can no longer find solace in fleeting affairs or alcohol. The anger, the drinking, and the recklessness are building to a crescendo—and they're about to take down John's career and his family. What happens next will send John on a long, strange journey—at once tragic and inevitable.
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Pip Dirk
reviewed Disturbing the Peace on July 01, 2015
Disturbing the Peace
Mental illness wrecks families.
It destroys lives, aggravating close bonds, leaving trust in a state of disrepair.
Alcoholism wrecks families.
It destroys lives, aggravating close bonds, leaving trust in a state of disrepair.
Mental illness and alcoholism combined leaves you isolated from loved ones; you're living in a world of paranoic hallucination and illusory cognizance.
She knew her next question would be a difficult one, but she decided to ask it anyway. She might never be in California again; she might never see him again. She had to wait for a swelling in her throat to go down before she could trust her voice. "John," she said, "have you made any plans or -- you know -- given any thought to what you might do when you leave here?
He looked puzzled, as if she had asked him a riddle. "Leave here?" he said.
That was when an orderly came out and announced that visiting hour was over.
Thought to be one of Yates's disappointments, I beg to differ. An outlook into the mind of a man in denial of his illness, full of self-ridicule and selfish arrogance; putting his wants and needs as his priority and not realizing all he really needs is to be loved.
Not his highest point, but also much better than average. 3.5 rounded up to 4.
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