by Richard Yates · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484371199
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Revolutionary Road is a novel by Richard Yates that tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a young couple living in a Connecticut suburb in the 1950s. Through their marriage, the novel explores themes of disillusionment, broken dreams, and the search for meaning in American suburban life. The film adaptation by Sam Mendes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, has popularized this work, which is considered a moving portrait of the fragility of the American dream.
Richard Walden Yates 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. Critical acclaim for his writing, however, was not reflected in commercial success during his lifetime.
