Revolutionary Road.
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone": Rare First Edition Of Richard Yates Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
$950.00
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Item Number: 147181
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First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino.
"Revolutionary Road is the The Great Gatsby of my time. One of the best books written by a member of my generation" (Kurt Vonnegut). "If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction I don't know what it is" (Tennessee Williams). Chosen by Time as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Adapted in 2008 to film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
