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by: Richard Yates  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.77 You Save: $10.18 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780739359372 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0739359371 Label: Random House Audio Manufacturer: Random House Audio Number Of Items: 9 Publication Date: November 25, 2008 Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: November 25, 2008 Studio: Random House Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: 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: "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. From the Trade Paperback edition. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - From the Horse's Mouth - A Review Co-written By My DadHurry and read this book before the movie comes out! I loved this book for a number of reasons. Who knew that there was so much of this type of thinking in the fifties? I think the main characters might have been the first hippies if they followed their initial instincts - but they didn't. This is a disturbing novel - a lot goes wrong for all these people. This is also probably the booziest novel I've ever read. My dad worked for IBM for his entire career, beginning in the ... Read More Rating: - Classic tale of the suburban nightmare.Richard Yates' 1961 novel, "Revolutionary Road", is a classic that has taken far too long to get the recognition it deserves (considering Yates died in 1992). With the Hollywood version coming out the best way to describe this haunting novel in cinematic terms would be: "American Beauty" meets "In the Bedroom" meets "The Ice Storm" and set in 1961. Even with the 1960 sentiments throughout this novel still rings true for modern times and is completely accessible with its theme of unrealized ... Read More Rating:  - Revolutionary WritingThe writing is astounding, the story depressing, the ending somewhat predictable. I can see how this book would have altered the course of literature when it was first published. Nowadays, it is no longer a revelation to find suburbanites living in quiet desperation engaged in medicinal drinking to numb themselves even more. So, it may be a "same-old" kind of story by now, but the writing is as fresh and masterful as I've ever seen. There is not a single word out of its necessary place. Not ... Read More Rating:  - Couldn't continue....After seeing the movie preview (starring Dicaprio & Winslet), I decided to see if they have this book at local library. I had to be on a wait list for this book and was the 6th or 7th person in line. I thought this must be a really good book for the wait list to be that long. And boy, was I so wrong. When I finally got the book, I started to read it right away. I was forcing myself to read it and when I read up to where they were talking about the rumors of Mrs. Givings' son in the loony ... Read More Rating:  - Not sure how I feel about this bookAfter reading this, I felt the same as I did after watching Ordinary People. It's depressing, the characters are for the most part unlikable, at times it seems to drag, but I wanted to know how it ends. Richard Yates is a great writer and I like his style, but I don't think this is the type of book that you just LOVE. I am always fascinated by novels with similar themes of disillusionment, etc. What I found most interesting about this book is the fact that the 1950s is the modern era in which ... Read More 
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