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...
Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road will totally ruin your day, meaning it'll bum the hell out of you. But it's so well written. This was the first novel I've read by Yates, as I knew him more from his short stories (which I'm still waiting for an ebook copy of his amazing collection dammit!). It's ...
I had never heard of Richard Yates, before picking one of his books at the airport, en route to Basle. I see some similarities between Yates' life and Frank Wheeler, one of the main protagonists, in Revolutionary Road. Yates, like Frank moved home on a regular basis during his childhood, he served i...
An astonishing, devastating book. The most affecting thing I've read since John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy (itself acclaimed by Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes as "the best American novel of the postwar period").A tale of subarban discontent set in late '50s Connecticut and New York (think Mad Men)...
I simply didn't have the energy to finish this. Not that the story was bad or anything, though I can't deny it was undeniably depressing. My biggest problem would be my inability to stomach Yates' writing style. It was too distracting to the point of not worth wasting any effort trying to dissect an...
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