Revolutionary Road.(Richard Yates' classic work republished)(Critical Essay)

Harper's Magazine | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates. Vintage Books, 2000. 337 pages. $14.

The Culture of Retrieval is inescapable today. There are the ubiquitous memoirists retrieving their early lives, and the songs barely a decade old being remixed, and the children of famous writers and directors and entertainers taking up their parents' occupations (and drawing on their parents' professional connections). We have had Jane Eyre the musical, recently on Broadway, a stage revival of The Producers, also on Broadway, and a revival of Hair (can you imagine?) off-Broadway. There's ...

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