The guy could write. The story of Revolutionary Road author Richard Yates, told in excruciating detail in Blake Bailey’s 2003 A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, moves me, partly ...
Frank and April Wheeler, the protagonists of Richard Yates' 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, are, in the most basic sense, ordinary people. He works in the city in what he calls "a hopelessly dull job;" ...
Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road is a work in disguise. It takes the form of a domestic tragedy, but it is actually a savage satire. There really isn’t anything quite like it in the canon of ...
On Father’s Day in 1965, Richard Yates, author of the book’ (also a movie) ‘Revolutionary Road’ and teacher at Boston University, opened mail from his daughters Monica and Sharon. The package included ...
Richard Yates’ novel Revolutionary Road was one of the most staggering literary experiences I’ve had in years; I just didn’t see it coming. Sure, I picked it up—as I do most of my fiction ...
On my bookshelf, there’s an old copy of Richard Yates’ “Revolutionary Road.” The cover illustration shows a pristine countryside with puffy white clouds on an azure sky. Above the hills fl oats a ...
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Caro Claire Burke Calls 'Revolutionary Road' Her Favorite Classic to Pair with 'Yesteryear'
No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why none of his books sold more than 12,000 copies in his ...