Revolutionary Road
by:
Richard Yates (author)
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife....
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In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780413757104 (0413757102)
Publish date: February 1st 2001
Publisher: Methuen
Pages no: 346
Edition language: English
I read Revolutionary Road for the first time last year and I was deeply impressed by it. It´s a harsh and devastating look on a dysfunctional marriage and on the lives of two people, who blame each other for their own shortcomings. If you are searching for a book that feels like a gut punch while re...
What a book! In 338 pages Yates dismantled the myth of consumerism and conformity with the family as the functional unit propagating both of these 'values'. Not everyone is happy living out a stereotype and most of society's stereotypes don't fit most of us most of the time anyway. It also skewered ...
Wow... this book... this entire story... sums up what I've been feeling in my life for... years now. This story really has done something to me. It's difficult to describe because it's rather personal, but it really has moved me in a way where makes me question if I really am doing all I can... unde...
Genialnie ukazany rozpad małżeństwa, rozpaczliwe próby znalezienia jakiś wspólnych celów przez dwoje ludzi, którzy po latach zdali sobie sprawę, że nic ich już nie łączy. I zderzenie z rzeczywistością, że niczym nie różnią się od pogardzanych przez nich nudnych małżeństw z przedmieść. Gorąco polecam...
Małżeństwo z dwójką dzieci. Dwoje ludzi, którzy niegdyś byli w sobie szaleńczo zakochani. Teraz popadli w tak znaną wszystkim parom z dłuższym stażem rutynę. Dla Franka każdy kolejny dzień spędzony w pracy (za którą nie przepada) jest takim samym dniem. Każdy powrót do domu jest też taki sam.Jego żo...
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