We are pleased to announce that Colleen was first to offer a comment about our REVOLUTIONARY ROAD post — and wins her very own copy of this amazing novel by Richard Yates. Visit Colleen — a recent UNC grad with a degree in English and advertising — at her blog Colleen Abroad, Passport to Somewhere: Because it’s never too early to start exploring the world…
Congratulations, Colleen! Thank you for visiting the Silver Birch Press blog!
Visitors, stay tuned for our next book giveaway — coming soon.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION: I’ve read Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates three times— and consider this 1961 novel a prose miracle. And I’m in good company.
“The Great Gatsby of my time…One of the best books by a member of my generation.” KURT VONNEGUT
“Here is more than fine writing; here is what added to fine writing makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don’t know what it is.” TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
NOTE: At a thrift store, I recently found a Vintage Contemporaries paperback edition of Revolutionary Road (in very good condition) and will mail the book to the first person in the U.S. who leaves a comment on this post. This is our second book giveaway.
I just finished rereading The Great Gatsby (read it free here) and decided that all the novels I dive into until September will be revisits to favorite books. Next on the list: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (originally published in 1961).
I picked this novel because it seemed a logical sequel to Gatsby — a sort of “What would have happened if Gatsby had married Daisy?”
This will be my third reading of Revolutionary Road — a novel I consider a prose miracle. And I’m in good company.
The Great Gatsby of my time…One of the best books by a member of my generation.” Kurt Vonnegut
“Here is more than fine writing; here is what added to fine writing makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don’t know what it is.” Tennessee Williams
If you want to read along with me, you can find Revolutionary Road here. (Yes, this is the book the Leonardo Di Caprio/Kate Winslet movie was based on — but, as usual, the book is better than the screen version.)
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