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   Nov 9, 2003 · These books glowed with a child-friendly optimism about the progressive nature of the universe, which made sense as the universe was clearly inhabited almost exclusively by plucky, enterprising...

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     Richard Yates's 1961 novel, "Revolutionary Road," is far...

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     REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. By Richard Yates. 337 pages....

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   Nov 10, 2008 · Richard Yates's 1961 novel, "Revolutionary Road," is far from the kind of property that typically becomes a big Hollywood movie, especially one starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in...

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   REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. By Richard Yates. 337 pages. Delta-Seymour Lawrence. $7.95. ''I STILL had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere,'' says April Wheeler...

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   Dec 7, 2008 · In “Revolutionary Road,” mid-century American suburban man is so maddening because he is both a rank escapist and a conservative pragmatist: he has arrogated to himself twin rights that ought...

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   Revolutionary Road is the debut novel by the American author Richard Yates. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ... a remarkable and deeply troubling ...

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   Jul 28, 2017 · Revolutionary Road. In one of her earliest book reviews for The New York Times, Kakutani wrote about Yates' "remarkable and deeply troubling" debut novel. July 28, 2017 By Book Marks. Share:

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   Who wrote Revolutionary Road?

   • Revolutionary Road is the debut novel by the American author Richard Yates. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer.

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   What happens at the end of Revolutionary Road?

   • At work, Frank is promoted. “Revolutionary Road” is a brilliant rewriting of “Madame Bovary,” with one signal difference—at the end of Flaubert’s novel, both Emma and Charles Bovary lose, because she commits suicide and her dull husband is utterly bereft.

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   Why is mid-century American suburban man so maddening in Revolutionary Road?

   • In “Revolutionary Road,” mid-century American suburban man is so maddening because he is both a rank escapist and a conservative pragmatist: he has arrogated to himself twin rights that ought to be incompatible—to dream of escape (and have adulterous affairs, like Emma Bovary), while simultaneously dreaming of timid stability, like Charles Bovary.

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   Was Revolutionary Road the Great Gatsby?

   • Kurt Vonnegut claimed that Revolutionary Road was The Great Gatsby of his time. William Styron described it as "A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic."

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   What does the father look like when he dies in 'Revolutionary Road'?

   • Even on his deathbed, the father’s hands “looked stronger and better than his son’s.” Yates acutely places gender at the center of “Revolutionary Road,” by having April Wheeler propose that in Paris she work to support her ideally free husband.

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   Who are Frank and April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road?

   • In the novel, Yates and his wife become Frank and April Wheeler, who live in a suburban Connecticut house, at the end of what is called Revolutionary Road (past a new development called Revolutionary Hill Estates). It is 1955. Frank is anything but frank, and springlike April will die in the fall. Life on Revolutionary Road is theatrical.

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   Revolutionary Road was written in 1961 and portrays the life of a 1950s young suburbanite couple, but it could really take place at any time. The fantasy and dissolution of the American dream is astutely sketched.