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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375708442
ISBN: 0375708448
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: April 25, 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 25, 2000
Sales Rank: 6983
Studio: Vintage
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The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike's similarly themed Couples, the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.
Yates's incisive, moving, and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now. Many of the cultural motifs seem quaintly dated--the early-evening cocktails, Frank's illicit lunch breaks with his secretary, the way Frank isn't averse to knocking April around when she speaks out of turn--and yet the quiet desperation at thwarted dreams reverberates as much now as it did years ago. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this novel conveys, with brilliant erudition, the exacting cost of chasing the American dream. --Jane Morris, Amazon.co.uk
Product Description:
With a new introduction by Richard Ford
"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William Styron
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.
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Even though it was written about 40 years ago, I suppose the subjects are always up to date. Richard Yates describes human faults, such as
prejudice, conventions, male chauvenism, dishonesty, insipidity etc.
Notwithstanding, he has a gift of telling a story, describing situations and composing reliable monologues. Revolutionary Road is a book which one reads with suspense, and keeps thinking about it after he finishes it.
Highly recommended!
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Richard Yates is a writer's writer. Every paragraph, every sentence, every punctuation mark seems relentlessly perfect. His unusual, unnerving realism, which has captivated Andres Dubus, Richard Ford, and so many others, lacks the fireworks of a DeLillo or the intricacies of a Pynchon, but offers the accessibility and the density of an American Tolstoy.
Revolutionary Road is a classic account of America's historic infatuation with joining in, but distancing from, the middle class. ... Read More
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Revolutionary Road is a masterpiece of a genre that's largely considered played out--the novel of suburban malaise. It's a social novel about The Way We Live Now, only in this case Now is over 40 years ago and Yates' take on the plight of the poor souls marooned in corporate/suburban America has long since been digested and superseded. It still persists to some degree--in films like American Beauty, novels such as Tom Perotta's Little Children, and the brilliant TV show Weeds. But, American Beauty ... Read More
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Post-modern realism at its finest. Truthful writing and a story that seems unimaginable, yet close-to-home at the same time.
Somehow, this is what it truly means to be an American as we cycle through new progressions of modernity, fear and hope.
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There is nothing more human then the raw emotional validity experienced when reading `Revolutionary Road'; a novel so steeped in what makes us a society you almost forget your reading a work of fiction on not the monologues of your own existence.
The novel introduces us to Frank and April Wheeler, a young family living in Connecticut in the mid-1950s. Frank works an office job he loathes and doesn't even completely understand, but the pay is good and that makes up for it. April, once ... Read More
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