[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully INSCRIBED First Edition of REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates

[Charles Agvent]

YATES, Richard. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. Boston: Little Brown, (1961). First 
Edition. Yates's powerful first book which Kurt Vonnegut called "the 
Great Gatsby of our time." Tennessee Williams said of this book: "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." The Academy-Award winning film AMERICAN BEAUTY 
echoes its theme of a soulless modern suburban marriage, and indeed this 
book too was made into a less successful film reuniting Leonardo 
DiCaprio and Kate Winslet from TITANIC. This copy is INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to noted translator Helen 
Lane "who writes better sentences/than almost anybody./with best 
wishes,/Dick Yates/3-16-61." Fine in a Good dustwrapper with edgewear 
and chipping at the top of the spine and the rear panel. (#019053)    
     $6,000.00

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