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Our première selection, for February, is the 1961 novel "Revolutionary Road," by Richard Yates — "that great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender," as James Wood wrote of it in December.
Because "Revolutionary Road" became the decade's great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender, Yates's stories are often likened to John Cheever's, but they are closer to J. F. Powers's: the same richly restrained prose, luxuriously lined but plain to the touch; the same anxious comedy; the same very cold, appraising eye; and the same superb ear for the foolish histrionics of speech.
And on the basis of a great, terrifying nothing, he wants to take the extraordinary step of applying the doctrine of preemptive self-defense against civilians.
Each one of these narratives – none of them afraid of looking into the great terrifying secrets of love and grief, death, ageing and faith in a mere handful of pages – makes the heart race.
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You're in the great game now – and the great game is terrifying".
Tyrion makes an appearance too, warning, "You're in the great game now and the great game is terrifying".
As her one-time husband tells another major player, "You're in the great game now, and the great game is terrifying" ― pearls of wisdom that apply to all.
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