Comments on: Rediscovering ‘Revolutionary Road’ http://www.earlyword.com/2008/12/17/rediscovering-revolutionary-road/ The Publisher | Librarian Connection Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nora Rawlinson http://www.earlyword.com/2008/12/17/rediscovering-revolutionary-road/#comment-1786 Nora Rawlinson Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:03:43 +0000 http://www.earlyword.com/?p=6469#comment-1786 Hi Dean; Good point about the Everyman edition being longer than the others. It includes his short novel, "Easter Parade" and a short story collection, "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" as well as the intro by Richard Price. Thanks for the comment, Nora Hi Dean;

Good point about the Everyman edition being longer than the others. It includes his short novel, “Easter Parade” and a short story collection, “Eleven Kinds of Loneliness” as well as the intro by Richard Price.

Thanks for the comment,

Nora

]]> By: Dean http://www.earlyword.com/2008/12/17/rediscovering-revolutionary-road/#comment-1781 Dean Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:42:24 +0000 http://www.earlyword.com/?p=6469#comment-1781 Revolutionary Road will probably remain a "cult novel" because of it's relentlessly depressing portrait of a marriage descending into hell. The writing is superb and the description of suburban living in the 50's (or maybe any decade?) is more than recognizable. This was Yates's first novel and many think it was all downhill from there. However, many of his stories rival Cheevers and a later novel, Easter Parade, is quite goo. I do have a question regarding the new editions of Revolutionary Road - why is the Everyman edition listed in your coverage over 300 pages longer than the novel itself? Revolutionary Road will probably remain a “cult novel” because of it’s relentlessly depressing portrait of a marriage descending into hell. The writing is superb and the description of suburban living in the 50′s (or maybe any decade?) is more than recognizable.
This was Yates’s first novel and many think it was all downhill from there. However, many of his stories rival Cheevers and a later novel, Easter Parade, is quite goo.
I do have a question regarding the new editions of Revolutionary Road – why is the Everyman edition listed in your coverage over 300 pages longer than the novel itself?

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