false 6276570 8466322620 9788466322621 10 5 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6276570.Via_Revolucionaria_Revolutionary_Road 27069 Richard Yates 13460 3079 2 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 10:10:50 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 10:21:58 -0700 2009
Yates explores how the American Dream really isn’t all that dreamy. The unhappy couple does all the right things: a solid job in the city, cute house in the country, nice kids, friends, outings, etc., but there’s contentment missing. It’s all fake as friends care but actually judge, and there is an unsuccessful effort to avoid the stain of cookie cutter suburbia. Set in the 1950s, the Wheeler’s attempt to break out of the never ending cycle, but fail. The failure is marked by their family being essentially destroyed and the subject table gossip by the friends who seem somewhat oblivious of the boring American Dream cycle.
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