by Richard Yates · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099518785
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«Revolutionary Road» is the literary novel by Richard Yates, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Frank and April Wheeler are a young couple living in the American suburbs of the 1950s who appear to have a happy life. Beneath that facade lie frustration, dissatisfaction and dreams of greatness; when they decide to change their lives, their aspirations clash with routine, infidelity and society's expectations.
The novel was originally published in 1961 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962. This Vintage Classics edition is the version tied to the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
For readers of twentieth-century American fiction and couple dramas with a social backdrop, also for those who came to the story through its film adaptation.
Richard Walden Yates was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety." His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award, while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, brought comparisons to James Joyce. Critical acclaim for his writing, however, was not reflected in commercial success during his lifetime.
