REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by Yates, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Not Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0679721916
- ISBN 13
- 9780679721918
- Seller
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About This Item
First Vintage Contemporaries edition, first prnt. Originally published in 1961. Perfect bound illustrated glossy wraps. Vonnegut blurb and Jill Krementz' (who coincidently received her first professional camera as a gift in 1961) photo of Yates on rear cover. Beginning page toning, otherwise, in Fine condition. Yates's first novel and a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award. Basis for the 2008 Sam Menedes film with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio.
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Synopsis
Revolutionary Road, the first novel of author Richard Yates, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962 along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When it was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and the New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted... a remarkable and deeply troubling book. " In 2005 the novel was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
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- Bookseller
- Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51945
- Title
- REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
- Author
- Yates, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0679721916
- ISBN 13
- 9780679721918
- Publisher
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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