About this title: A suburban family--Frank, April, and the two kids--breaks down when April decides they should change their lives by moving to Paris and Frank gets involved in a messy affair at the office. Richard Yates's brilliant 1961 novel, in which there are no winners, is a satirical dissection of suburbia in the 1950s and a probing examination of the sadness ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375708442ISBN:0375708448
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780307454621ISBN:0307454622
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"I loved this book! Then I rented the DVD and loved the movie. Kudos for a great story of post-war, mid fifties Americana. I grew up during that era and knew many families like the characters in this book. Richard Yates did a fantastic job of bringing them "to life" on every page and I'm looking forward to reading more books by this late author!!"
"I read the first chapter...boring. I set it aside for a week and tried again...made it through one more chapter.
I didn't like the characters, found the setting contrived, and have too many good books to read without wasting my time reading this.
I tried to give it away but found no takers so I donated it."
"Upon the first lines of Revolutionary Road written by Richard Yates, I was taken aback by his moments of rich literary language and passionate discourse of the American condition. Much like F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical imagery, Yates tells a story of lovers caught in the anquish of the American Dream that is as relavent today as it was when first written. The agony of reality juxtaposed against the ecstacy of dreams is display in a brutally honest manner making the protagonists Frank and April as memorable and more belivable than doomers love of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchannan. This work is a masterpiece of American fiction that should sit between the works of Fitzgerald and Updike. The reader that understand the lost generation, the painful reality of the artistic mind, and a longing for more from life will be haunted by this beautiful couple caught in the chasm of their childhoods and identitites as American citizens."
"And another one bites the dust. Revolutionary Road made me want to eat dust, or dirt or even mud. I had all the anticipation of both my tumblr book club and the movie "Titanic 2" behind me and I just couldn't do it.
The back says
In the hopeful 1950's, Frank and April Wheeler seem to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never did see herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainly is about to crumble.
The book is split into three sections. 100 pages or so into it I was hoping the husband would cheat so that they would at least fight about something meaningful. This isn't typically a book I would pick up, the writing style reminds me of eighteenth century lit. The author is wordy. His character's are constantly second guessing their emotions and although that is true to fact the main characters drove me nuts. Eventually they have a combined midlife crisis, both cheating(no sex is in the book though :() and eventually attempting to move out of the country. However unprotected sex rears her bitch of a face and ruins everything. At which point the woman decides to take matters into her own hands and dies because she is trying to abort the fetus on her own. Thus ends the book.
Let's hope the movie is better. Kate Winslet won an award, that means it's good right?"
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