Author: Richard Yates
Translator: Jeong-hwa Yoo
Publisher: Novel Mine
504 pages | 210*140mm
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About This Book
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,
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