They loved their mommy. In only 200-odd pages Yates gives us two biographies entire, opening out each girl's possibilities before systematically - some would say sadistically - shutting them down. Russell Yates said the sentencing freed him from a gag order that kept him from defending himself, his family and his wife from public misconceptions. In Blake Bailey's 2003 biography, A Tragic Honesty, the personal chaos of Yates is thoroughly documented: he was subject to periodic phases of emotional and mental disturbance, to mania, to debilitating alcoholism, to self-destruction and bouts of introspection that left him out of the reach of those who wanted to help him. Brett Phillips' wife arrived at the World Series the morning of his Game 4 walk-off but left the game early. But is it too good a novel to make a great film, asks Nick Laird, Thoughtful looks can't replace thoughts as rendered by Yates ... Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road. "Don't let some caseworker at some insurance company decide your treatment. Nothing in the Wheelers' lives is real; everything is subject to slippage; daily they have to summon up the brute endurance to play house and happy families. The reader is always on the border of a consciousness. One example of this lack from page to screen will suffice. Few writers would brave that simile, and fewer still would make it work. DiCaprio's Frank is one of the boys; he smirks, rages, smoulders, and DiCaprio seems to show him thinking before he speaks - trying to suggest what we're missing out on. Russell Yates, left, holds a picture of his wife and children in 1988. They don't get to France and, without giving away the plot, the novel which began in humiliation finishes in tragedy. "Let the doctor treat you," he said. After five weeks of recuperation, he rejoined his division to see heavy fighting inside Germany - and then victory. Once Andrea Yates was released by the hospital, her husband said, there was little he could have done to stop his wife from acting on her delusions. The story, set in 1955, turns on April and Frank Wheeler, a young discontented couple who've just moved from New York to western Connecticut suburbia, and want more from life. They trap themselves. "She may be able to help some inmates in prison. A Special Providence (1969), Yates's second novel, strip-mines a mother-son relationship, excavating deep seams of exploitation and co-dependence. He and his wife also donated Yates Hill at Camp Louis Farr to the Concho Valley Council of Boy Scouts. Yates was born in 1926 in Yonkers, an industrial town in upstate New York. He urged families of the mentally ill to seek out the best psychiatrist in their city rather than depend on the guidelines of their insurance plan. "And do you know a funny thing?" A student of Yates's called the Mazda "a bomb on wheels" - and it's not a bad metaphor for the man himself. It's this period of his life that forms the basis of Revolutionary Road. The end will be bad, but there is a beauty in the journey, in the little freedoms allowed the characters before the curtain falls. In this way, the movie has to skate along the top of the book, sometimes psychologically, and sometimes chronologically, making multiple episodes singular and collapsing time, leaving obvious narrative casualties. The characters become repeating versions of each other, tracing the footsteps of their predecessors down a mirrored corridor of misery. When another novelist commented that all she wrote about was family, Yates replied: "That's all there is to write about." For the first time in your life you'll have time to find out what it is you want to do, and when you find it you'll have the time and the freedom to start doing it.". Despite his high-handed, Nabokovian dismissals of psychoanalysis (finally prescribed antidepressants, he gleefully remarked: "No more Sigmund Fucking Freud! At 18, the skinny, clumsy Yates was drafted into the army. But the source of Yates's melancholy went deeper than literary status anxiety. Yates never did. The details, spare and choice, are often daring: "a white door so overlayed with many generations of soiled and blistered paint that its surface felt like the flesh of a toadstool". Yates said he would always support Andrea, but it bothers him that she did not warn him about her thoughts about killing their children. "Well," he said instead. Few 20th-century writers made more productive use of their own painful back-stories. Providence Journal via AP Rereading Revolutionary Road, where no cliché is utilised and no short-cuts to meaning are taken, it's difficult not to agree. Every chance of happiness is missed, or messed up, or turns out to be false. Alfred Kazin thought Revolutionary Road "squarely locates the field of tragedy as marriage", others that it indicted suburbia - it's clear, though, that the Wheelers would be just as lost and discontented in Paris. ", Yates said he still supports and believes in his wife. After his wife's death, Yates erected the Annie Yates Memorial Citadel for the Salvation Army in San Angelo. If I'm not mistaken one of the insiders started blocking some people and being a dick towards them and his excuse for that was his wife left him. In the book, Frank's affair with his floor receptionist, Maureen Grube, is a slow campaign (on her part) that takes months: according to Frank, she has been "undulating in the aisle like that, bending close over his desk to hand him a folder, smiling in a special, oblique way that he'd never seen her use on anyone else". The NASA engineer said his work no longer seems significant to him, and said he may train to work in another field. He studs his realistic narrative with little shiny symbols. Only after his wife's treatment with the anti-psychotic agent Haldol proved "miraculous," he said, did they decide to have a fifth child -- confident that if her post-partum depression were to return, "we could nip it in the bud by recognizing the symptoms early, getting treatment early. They talk not to but through each other. Though Frank rails against the suburbs as "an enormous, obscene delusion", the idea of leaving them, and his job and his country, in order to discover a métier that might or might not exist, terrifies him, but April's enthusiasm is overwhelming. "If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast," Yates said. And that, he knew as he chuckled and shook his head, was what he'd been afraid she would say. There has been a tender kiss at a Christmas party. When he died in November 1992, at the age of 66, Yates was the author of 27 collected short stories and seven novels (three of which - Revolutionary Road, A Special Providence and The Easter Parade now form the basis of his ascendant reputation), but career-wise he was nowhere and he bitterly resented the fact. His characters are unable, in Larkin's phrase, to climb clear of wrong beginnings. At right, Yates speaks in the doorway of his home on Jan. 17 in Warwick, Rhode Island. "They know that she was sick, and they know that she loved them. (Both Revolutionary Road and The Great Gatsby, Yates's favourite novel after Madame Bovary, are set in postwar periods of optimism - the 50s, the 20s - when expectations exceeded reality.) Nominated for the National Book Award in 1962, and now made into a film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road was the only book of his own that Yates considered a masterpiece, regretting that he'd written it first. His bleakness was endemic, structural, and what seems comic-realist at the start of his fictions never fails to collapse into tragedy.
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