[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Richard Yates REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

[Charles Agvent]

YATES, Richard. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 
(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.

There is an excellent interview with Helen Lane online. (#019053)        
$6,000

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/019053/richard-yates/revolutionary-road

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