bookshelves: published-1954, north-americas, film-only, winter-20142015, connecticut, filthy-lucre, families, first-world-angst, oneupmanship, corporate-ladder, lit-richer Read from January 10 to 18, 2015 Description: Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going ...
I didn't care for this one. It addresses middle-class dissatisfactions similar to those explored in Revolutionary Road, but Sloan Wilson's treatment is dry and pedestrian. Perhaps it just takes a tortured soul like Dick Yates to approach these issues in a dramatically memorable way. Skip this one an...
Wilson is the author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a novel that reportedly struck a chord during the fifties. In this wonderful autobiography, Sloan describes how and why he became an author. His parents were quite wealthy—mostly money derived from his grandmother—so much so that they ...
Back in the day...... and the theme
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