by Richard Yates · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307454782
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«Revolutionary Road» is the literary novel by Richard Yates, published by Vintage Books in paperback (480 pages, in English).
In the 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler seem an ideal couple with two children in the suburbs, but he is bored at his job and she longs for the acting career she gave up. Believing themselves destined for something great, they plan to move to France to start a new life, a project that exposes the cracks in their relationship.
The novel was originally published in 1961 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the fiction category in 1962. The Vintage Books edition (2008) belongs to Vintage Contemporaries.
For readers of literary fiction; the edition references the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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.
