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S'està carregant… Revolutionary road (1961)de Richard Yates
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» 26 més Favourite Books (510) Top Five Books of 2013 (1,289) Top Five Books of 2022 (474) Books Read in 2022 (1,056) New England Books (31) 1960s (92) First Novels (88) 20th Century Literature (992) USA Road Trip (8) A Novel Cure (391) Alphabetical Books (154) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. La mia lettura è stata eccessivamente lenta, penalizzata da troppe soste e inframezzata da molti altri libri. A ogni modo, forse qualche responsabilità appartiene anche al libro stesso, che con la sua struttura che procede per quadri separati invita alle pause. Va comunque detto che la lettura psicologica dei personaggi - e in parte dell'epoca e del mondo del lavoro di allora - è davvero acuta. ( ![]() Acclaimed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction adapted to screen as well, it fell flat for me as a reader. Life in the suburbs circa 1950s, the characters are dull, plot predictable and emotion missing in action. Obviously my opinion is in the minority but I had high hopes. With our libraries in CA closed, I trudged through it each day hoping for more. Fortunately my neighbor got rid of some books and my Kindle Fire HD 8 arrives tomorrow! Hope everyone is well, safe and smiling! Ambientada en 1955, la novela se enfoca en las aspiraciones de Frank y April Wheeler, un matrimonio que vive en un suburbio en Connecticut y que se considera sumamente diferentes de sus demás vecinos en el residencial Revolutionary Hill Estates. La novela comienza con la preparación y puesta en escena de una producción amateur de la obra teatral The Petrified Forest, la cual es protagonizada por April. Sin embargo, la producción termina siendo un fracaso. Después del estreno de la producción, Frank y April tienen una pelea al lado de una autopista. Tratando de salir de sus vidas suburbanas, April convence a Frank de mudarse a París, en donde ella trabajaría para sustentar a la familia mientras él decidía que hacer de su vida. El plan del viaje a Francia ayuda a solucionar los problemas maritales temporalmente. Sin embargo, mientras que April se esfuerza por concretar el plan, Frank no parece estar tan entusiasmado con la idea. Cuando ella descubre que está embarazada por tercera vez, el plan tiene que ser cancelado, aunque Frank parece estar contento con esto porque disfruta de las alabanzas de sus jefes en el trabajo y porque ha empezado a identificarse con su trabajo mundano como oficinista. April, abrumada por la situación e incapaz de continuar con su vida como ama de casa por un tiempo indefinido, trata de realizarse un aborto, pero comienza a desangrarse y muere después de ser trasladada a un hospital. Frank, cargado de pena y culpa, se aísla dentro de sí mismo y continúa con su trabajo. An amazing, amazing writer. The story of the main characters, of every character in the book, is so real and so beautiful. The dialogue was written so well. And I adore the humor of this book. And the emotional stakes. And everything. 3.5
Writing in controlled, economical prose, Mr. Yates delineates the shape of these disintegrating lives without lapsing into sentimentality or melodrama. His ear for dialogue enables him to infuse the banal chitchat of suburbia with a subtext of Pinteresque proportions, and he proves equally skilled at reproducing the pretentious, status-conscious talk of people brought up on Freud and Marx. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsBiblioteca Sábado (48) Contingut aTé l'adaptacióPremisNotable Lists
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HTML: 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 that certainty is about to crumble.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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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