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Revolutionary Road
by Yates, Richard
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- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, clean and appearing unread. In a Near Fine dust jacket that is a bit faded on the spine and with one tape repair to the verso of the jacket.
Despite their youthful fantasies that they are different and more original than the other couples who surround them, Frank and April Wheeler succumb to the banalities of suburban middle class life. Climbing the corporate ladder, Frank becomes increasingly detached from his wife's domestic dissatisfaction; pay raises, praise at work, and tawdry affairs with secretaries numb his pain temporarily. Meanwhile, April despairs about being trapped at home as a wife and mother; she dreams of her more creative single life and her goals of living abroad. Pushed to the brink, she and Frank make a pact to abandon the normalcy expected of their generation and run away to Paris; but an unplanned pregnancy derails them and leads their marriage to a heartbreaking end. An astounding fictional debut by Richard Yates, and a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Despite their youthful fantasies that they are different and more original than the other couples who surround them, Frank and April Wheeler succumb to the banalities of suburban middle class life. Climbing the corporate ladder, Frank becomes increasingly detached from his wife's domestic dissatisfaction; pay raises, praise at work, and tawdry affairs with secretaries numb his pain temporarily. Meanwhile, April despairs about being trapped at home as a wife and mother; she dreams of her more creative single life and her goals of living abroad. Pushed to the brink, she and Frank make a pact to abandon the normalcy expected of their generation and run away to Paris; but an unplanned pregnancy derails them and leads their marriage to a heartbreaking end. An astounding fictional debut by Richard Yates, and a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5588
- Title
- Revolutionary Road
- Author
- Yates, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
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