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...