Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness is a collection of short stories written by Richard Yates, who The Times called "[t]he most perceptive author of the twentieth century." It was published in 1962 by Little Brown. This collection of shorts stories follows the average lives of eleven Manhattanites: office workers, a cab driver with visions of immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, a suburban haunting. Yates paints a subtle but shaded mosaic of the 1950s American dream and the disappointment that came with it. "Yates created what is almost the New York equivalent of Dubliners" (New York Times).