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Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates

Evi's review

Apr 23, 11

bookshelves: read-in-2011

Read from April 13 to 21, 2011

I loved this book! It took me a while to really get into it, but after the first 50 pages I got sucked into April and Frank's story. Richard Yates paints a perfect picture of American life in the 50's and of people trying to get out of life's strains. I'd seen the film (which is brilliant btw!) so I knew how it would end, but that didn't stop me being curious and wanting to read more! While reading though, I kept on thinking "I hope my life doesn't turn out like this"!

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“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
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