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Re: Guest Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Guest — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:24:45 -0000

A high school honors student? Thanks, A Tad Scared. It's better than writing like a sycophantic college professor. Yes the name was a typo but it was never corrected on this site. All other versions have been fixed.

Re: Guest Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

BU4691 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:56:12 -0000

Thoreau said "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." This is true whether they live in the suburbs, a New York penthouse, a small town in Minnesota, or on a farm in Nebraska. Richard Yates singles out suburbia as the cause of a malaise. He is being unfair. But then life is unfair, isn't it?

Re: Guest Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

atadscared — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:27:55 -0000

This review reads like a decent book report by an honors high school student. Yikes. And the inability to remember a protagonist's name (Alice v April) is a tad scary.

Re: Guest Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

catgal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:28:32 -0000

Right you are, a1732. I read the book as required reading in college 2 years after it was published. It obviously made an impression since I still remember vividly April and Frank and their sad lives. It will be interesting to see how it translates to the screen.

Re: Guest Book Review: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

a1732 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:56 -0000

The wife's name in this book is April, correct? Not Alice.