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Name: Young hearts crying
Author: Richard Yates

Michael Davenport, a Harvard graduate eager to break into poetry and playwriting, wed Lucy Blaine, a Radcliffe graduate blessed with a million‑dollar inheritance. Their marriage faces the tension between Lucy’s wealth and Michael’s challenges in establishing his writing career.

First publish date: 1984

Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Fiction

Authors: Richard Yates

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