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Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, released in 2009.

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy.
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Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely and brilliantly alive...a masterpiece -- Tennesse Williams

The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald -- Nick Hornby ― Guardian Books of the Year

I hand out copies of Revolutionary Road to anyone who will take them...one of the most moving and exact portraits of suburbia in all of American literature -- David Hare ― Observer

The Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation -- Kurt Vonnegut

The best novel ever written about the death of the American dream -- Kate Atkinson ― Daily Telegraph

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Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into a film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio which is due for release in 2009

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (1 April 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099518627
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099518624
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
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    Richard P. Moela was born in 1986 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
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Purchased as a gift - fortunately well received. Read before u watch excellent Leo & Kate movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal
Reviewed in Spain on 10 August 2018
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Brutal en el sentido de que es descorazonador descubrir que los problemas de insatisfacción personal (problemas del "primer mundo"), son los mismos ahora que hace 60 años, cuando se escribió la novela. Todas las generaciones llegados a una edad tenemos las mismas obsesiones. Es gracioso, en el fondo, como la humanidad se repite una y otra vez.

Un libro muy bien escrito, sutil y con bastante humor negro y mala leche; que trata sobre las ilusiones perdidas y el espejismo de creerse mejor que los demás. Me encantó.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This will suck the life out of you
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I don't believe classics can be well defined in a review. If you are going to read this book, be prepared. There are no happy moments in here. Its plain darkness. Naked truth about our lives. Don't for a second be fooled that it would bother you much. It will become a part of you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars revolutionary road
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La storia è ambientata nel 1955 e i protagonisti sono i coniugi Wheeler, una coppia middle class dei sobborghi benestanti di New York, che si è trincerata nella convinzione errata di essere anticonformista per il semplice fatto di desiderare (senza metterla in pratica) una nuova vita oltre oceano, mollando un lavoro sicuro, certezze economiche e una mentalità che impone all'uomo, al capo famiglia, di essere colui che porta a casa lo stipendio.
Mentre i sogni degli Frank e April Wheeler trovano realizzazione più nelle parole che nei fatti e la loro ipocrisia inizia pian piano a emergere anche davanti ai loro stessi occhi, la storia si sussegue tra un lavoro di routine ben pagato, incontri con i vicini che detestano ma fingono di adorare e una passione per il teatro, in cui April tenta di avere successo in qualità di protagonista.
Ma ad andare in scena, in questo romanzo che supera la perfezione, è l'America ipocrita e conformista del dopoguerra, quella che ha venduto ideali e passioni in cambio di una casetta con giardino e tutte le comodità che il capitalismo può offrire. È un'America che non fa i conti con se stessa, che ha creato codici di linguaggio e di gestione dei rapporti personali talmente stilizzati da far divenire superfluo guardarsi dentro e chiedere se ciò che stiamo facendo ci renda davvero felice, se chi stiamo criticando non sia in realtà qualcuno tale e quale a noi, ipocrita quanto basta e anestetizzato da comodità irrinunciabili.
Qualcosa sopraggiungerà, però, a svegliare April da quel torpore, un qualcosa che non aveva previsto e che la metterà davanti all'evidenza: i suoi sogni resteranno sogni, ma non solo; ciò che la devasterà con la potenza che solo una verità inattesa può avere è la consapevolezza che sono sempre stati tali e che lei è arida di ambizioni e sentimenti tanto quanto lo sono gli altri.
Revolutionary Road, la strada in cui gli Wheeler e i loro vicini vivono, porta nel nome il riassunto di un intero romanzo. Di rivoluzionario, alla fine, ci sarà solo la triste consapevolezza di vedere ciò che si è, senza raccontarsi più bugie. Ma sarà un lusso (e una condanna) concesso a pochi, perché il resto della gente che uscirà immune da questa consapevolezza continuerà a vivere a braccetto con finzione e stereotipi. Così come farà l'America, vera protagonista del romanzo, che continuerà a fornire quella coperta di sicurezze materiali ed emotive che impongono di non porsi domande, pena la perdita di tutto.
Mentre stava ancora lavorando al libro, Richard Yates dichiarò di stare scrivendo un romanzo sull'aborto e la sua dichiarazione fu presa alla lettera. In realtà, come spiegò tempo dopo, ciò che il romanzo trattava era tutta la serie di aborti possibili: una commedia teatrale fallita, una carriera sfumata, ambizioni messe a tacere, fino ad arrivare all'aborto vero e proprio, non solo di un figlio ma della propria vita.
Il tema del romanzo, può comunque riassumersi usando le parole di Yates stesso: «La maggior parte degli essermi umani è ineluttabilmente sola e la tragedia della loro vita è nascosta in loro stessi.»
Romanzo pubblicato agli inizi degli anni settanta, aspettò trent'anni per ottenere il meritato successo e occupare un posto di rilievo nella storia della letteratura mondiale e americana e costituire un esempio di scrittura e capacità introspettiva in dote a pochissimi autori. Consigliatissimo
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