This novel from 1976 is from the writer of Revolutionary Road, a devastating but also ironic look into New York suburban domestic life in the 1950s. This book is equally devastating and ironic, but from a different angle and subject. We meet the Grimes sisters in their youth in the 1930s as they are discussing their father’s job as a headline writer for the New York. A subsequent scene of disappointment later we find out through their eyes that he’s actually just a copy desk writer, […]