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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.
Richard Walden Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American fiction writer identified with the mid-century "Age of Anxiety." His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award, while his first short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, brought comparisons to James Joyce.
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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- The Easter Parade.
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.
- The Collected Stories by Richard Yates, Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
Dec 7, 2008 · Yates’s early stories, now gathered in an edition with “Revolutionary Road” and his 1976 novel “The Easter Parade” (Everyman’s Library; $26), are highly disciplined, formally chaste.
A native New Yorker, Richard Yates was born in 1926; his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award (in the same year as Catch-22). Much admired by peers, he was known during his lifetime as the foremost fiction writer of the post-war "age of anxiety."
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Novelist and short story writer Richard Yates is remembered for his insightful and merciless portrayals of the isolation and alienation of the middle class in mid-20th-century America. Yates was born in Yonkers, New York, on February 3, 1926, and later moved to New York City with his mother and sister after his parents separated.
