About the book: 2011 / For the first time in Russian - the most confessional, psychologically insightful novel by the American classic Richard Yates, “one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century” (Sunday Telegraph) , author of Liars in Love and Easter Parade, Cold Harbor and the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, the novel that served as the basis for the recent Sam Mendes-directed film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet (their first time together since Titanic) !). The action of "Breath of Fate" spans a dozen years and two continents; young Bobby Prentice is trying to find himself on the battlefields of World War II and become a real man, to finally get rid of the suffocating, tyrannical guardianship of his mother - and his mother, fighting her own demons, seeks recognition as a fashion sculptor…