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 famous “ Revolutionary Road" - a novel that served as the basis for the recently acclaimed Sam Mendes film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet (for the 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, while his mother, fighting her own demons, seeks recognition as a fashionable sculptor...