Revolutionary Road (豆瓣)

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作者: Richard Yates

ISBN: 9780307454782
页数: 480 页
定价: 60
出版社: Vintage Books USA
装帧: 简装
出版年: 2008年12月

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　　The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike... (展开全部) 　　The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike's similarly themed Couples, the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.
　　 Yates's incisive, moving, and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now. Many of the cultural motifs seem quaintly dated--the early-evening cocktails, Frank's illicit lunch breaks with his secretary, the way Frank isn't averse to knocking April around when she speaks out of turn--and yet the quiet desperation at thwarted dreams reverberates as much now as it did years ago. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this novel conveys, with brilliant erudition, the exacting cost of chasing the American dream. --Jane Morris, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
　　
　　
　　 "So much nonsense has been written on suburban life and mores that it comes as a considerable shock to read a book by someone who seems to have his own ideas on the subject and who pursues them relentlessly to the bitter end," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 2/1/61) of this novel of unhappy life in the burbs. It is reminiscent of the popular film American Beauty in its depiction of white-collar life as fraught with discontent. Others have picked up on this theme since, but Yates remains a solid read.
　　Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
　　
　　
　　 " of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." --Kurt Vonnegut
　　
　　"Beautifully crafted...a remarkable and deeply troubling book." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
　　
　　
　　 “Primary and forceful. . . . looks straight at us . . . and invites us to pay attention, have a care, take heed, and live life as if it mattered what we do.”
　　—Richard Ford
　　
　　“A powerful treatment of a characteristically American theme…. A moving and absorbing story.”
　　—The Atlantic Monthly
　　
　　“The great Gatsby of my time.”
　　—Kurt Vonnegut
　　
　　“Yates allows his characters to reveal themselves-- which they do with an intensity that excites the reader's compassion [and] interest.”
　　—The New York Times　　

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