Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

    Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes book w/ illustrations by Eloise Wilkin.A Little Golden book.

    There are chapters on the Roxy ushers, the Mighty Wurlitzer, along with splendidly reproduced illustrations. -- "An agreeable mixture of wit and scholarship," writes Dwight Macdonald, On Movies