The protagonist of one of this author's short stories rants to his friends about operating a Browning automatic rifle in the army, although he had only fired that gun twice. In one of his novels, the matriarch Pookie raises two daughters: one becomes a depressed Long Island housewife and the other becomes a depressed career woman in the advertising field. This creator of Sarah and Emily Grimes wrote a novel in which the mentally ill math professor John Givings condemns the (*) suburban life of his caretaker mother and his neighbors. That novel ends with Frank's empty d
The protagonist of one of this author's short stories rants to his friends about operating a Browning automatic rifle in the army, although he had only fired that gun twice. In one of his novels, the matriarch Pookie raises two daughters: one becomes a depressed Long Island housewife and the other becomes a depressed career woman in the advertising field. This creator of Sarah and Emily Grimes wrote a novel in which the mentally ill math professor John Givings condemns the (*) suburban life of his caretaker mother and his neighbors. That novel ends with Frank's empty despair when his wife April Wheeler dies from blood loss after trying to perform a self-induced abortion. For 10 points, name this author of the short story "The B.A.R. Man" and the novels The Easter Parade and Revolutionary Road.
The protagonist of one of this author's short stories rants to his friends about operating a Browning automatic rifle in the army, although he had only fired that gun twice.
Richard Yates