Book Review: Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
The Richard Yates back-story has passed into popular literary legend: the acclaimed author who never sold more than 12,000 copies per hardback, and whose works were largely out of print before being rediscovered posthumously and enjoying a revival. For a Yates novice such as myself this might seem a [...]
The road to perdition
March 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Fiction
Tags:1950s·1950s America·abortion·April Wheeler·conformity·Frank Wheeler·Leonardo DiCaprio·marriage·masculinity·Richard Ford·Sam Mendes·suburbia
‘Realty’ and realism: the inner life of Frank Bascombe
March 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fiction
Book Review: Independence Day - Richard Ford
I’ve just completed Richard Ford’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Independence Day’, and I have to admit it left me a bit cold. The novel forms the middle part of a trilogy of large-ish books (beginning with ‘The Sportswriter’ and ending with ‘The Lay of the Land’) narrated by a notionally ordinary [...]
Tags:Frank Bascombe·John Updike·Phil Hogan·Pulitzer Prize·Rabbit Angstrom·Richard Ford·small town America·The Guardian