Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates (also rec’d by David Sedaris , Kate Winslet & Philip Seymour Hoffman )
Buy on AmazonAlthough I’ve never met a Richard Yates book I didn’t like, Revolutionary Road is my favorite, and it’s certainly his most celebrated. In 1955 Frank and April Wheeler have moved from bohemian Greenwich Village to suburban Connecticut. But the couple feel superior to their dumpy, culturally arid neighbors in Revolutionary Hill Estates and they plan to move to sophisticated Paris. Yates’s skewering of middle-class pretension and typically American anti-Americanism starts out gentle, but the sto...
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"Although I’ve never met a Richard Yates book I didn’t like, Revolutionary Road is my favorite, and it’s certainly his most celebrated. In 1955 Frank and April Wheeler have moved from bohemian Greenwich Village to suburban Connecticut. But the couple feel superior to their dumpy, culturally arid neighbors in Revolutionary Hill Estates and they plan to move to sophisticated Paris. Yates’s skewering of middle-class pretension and typically American anti-Americanism starts out gentle, but the sto..."
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"I’ve never seen suburbia portrayed in such a way that was so riveting. He really captured it."
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"Frank and April Wheeler meet in New York. He has bohemian ideas; she is a woman who believed that she was going to be something special among a group of special people. After they move to the suburbs, you see quite clearly the isolation they feel once severed from the city. In the moments when the two are happy, you see how happiness can be reignited in a relationship that’s starting to go sour, but they insist on seeing themselves as a kind of golden couple, destined for a more glamorous lif..."
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