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- Full Title: Revolutionary Road When Written: 1955-1960 Where Written: Mahopac, New York When Published: 1961
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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.
Full Title: Revolutionary Road When Written: 1955-1960 Where Written: Mahopac, New York When Published: 1961 Literary Period: Contemporary Realism Genre: Novel Setting: Western Connecticut, New York City Climax: Frank discovers a rubber syringe in the linen closet and confronts April, who declares that he cannot stop her from inducing an abortion.
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Richard Yates's novel Revolutionary Road was first published in 1961, and it was reprinted in 2000 by Vintage Press.
From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs.
Jan 10, 2012 · Described by The Sunday Telegraph as ‘one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century’, Richard Yates demonstrates his ability to turn the banal into the extraordinary in his first published novel, Revolutionary Road, which was consequently nominated for the National Book Award in 1961.
In the opening chapter of Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler and Shep Campbell act in a community production of The Petrified Forest, a play written in 1935 by American playwright Robert Sherwood (1896–1955). The play and the novel have much in common: Yates's text draws on the dialogue and imagery of the play, as well as its themes.
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