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‘Revolutionary Road’ revives Yates
By Jessica Schneider Jan 25, 2009, 10:46 GMT
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank\'s job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now ...more
It should be no surprise that the latest film starring Kate and Leo, titled “Revolutionary Road” has helped to boost the interest and sales in the great neglected writer Richard Yates.
The film is of course based on his 1961 novel with the same title.
USA Today states: “From the ages of 11 to 13, Yates lived in Scarborough, a neighborhood within the town of Ossining. "It was perhaps the only time in his chaotic childhood — moving from place to place, whenever his sculptor-mother's creditors began to close in — that he was at least a little happy," says Blake Bailey, author of the 2003 biography A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates.”
Yates was one of those writers who had to struggle with his book sales, probably because he is a great writer and the publishers and public tend to prefer pap.
If you’d like to know the stir this novel is causing, visit the USA Today article.
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