... Richard Yates' stories display admirable variety. With equal skill and insight he writes about college students in Paris, third-graders suffering under a desiccated teacher, wartime draftees learning discipline during basic training, and best of all an engaged couple's disappointing prelude to marriage.


[This review was for Short Story I: Stories by Richard Yates, Gina Berriault, B.L. Barrett and Seymour Epstein. The Yates stories included in this book were "The Best of Everything," "A Really Good Jazz Piano," "Fun with a Stranger," and "Jody Rolled the Bones."]