Link to time.com post, "Revolutionary Road Finds Readers, If Not Viewers".Excerpt: The film, which faithfully captures that pain, promptly sank at the box office — grossing just $21 million so far — despite the fact that Winslet won a Golden Globe as Best Actress for her tortured role.
But the novel has caught fire. More than a million paperback copies of Revolutionary Road, which made little commercial ripple when it came out in 1961 (though it was nominated for a National Book Award), are now in print, and the Vintage paperback has been on the New York Times best seller list for 11 weeks.
Latest LINKcat tally: 202 holds on 30 copies.
I read the book in 1973 -- during the summer between college and library school. (And it's high on my list of re-reads.) Haven't seen the movie yet, but I suspect the combined formats would make a great book-to-film discussion.
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