Showing results for title "Revolutionary Road", by author "Richard Yates" in Family Life

Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler 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 that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

Frank e April Wheeler sono una coppia middle class dei sobborghi benestanti di New York. Coltivano il proprio anticonformismo con ingenuità, quasi con ipocrisia; si sentono destinati a una vita creativa, magari in Europa, dove esprimere la propria passione. Ma sotto la superficie di una vita apparentemente felice la giovane famiglia nasconde una tensione pronta a esplodere con la prepotenza di un dramma shakespeariano. Uno dei racconti più intensi e penetranti della narrativa americana.