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From: book reviews Category: Art Date: 11 May 2009 Time: 09:39 AM Review: A compelling tale of squandered living and fine writing is marred by Bailey's sexism, all women who have more than one sexual partner are promiscuous and other pseudonyms for not so good, while men can have all the ass they want. Perhaps Bailey has swallowed too much Yates and it has rubbed off on him. The best story is that Larry David dated Yates's daughter and the episode where George and Jerry meet Elaine's dad, a famous writer, is based on David's meeting with Dick Yates, where he ruined a suede jacket in the rain because he worried that the pink lining was effeminate, so he couldnt turn it inside out in front of macho RY. Pity that revolutionary road finally made into a film after yates dead and buried, and he could have lived the fitzgerald high life rather than squalid povery ala the rest of us.