Revolutionary Road
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518624
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99

Revolutionary Road

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1 Apr 2008
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Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, released in 2009.

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy.
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099518624
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Richard Yates

Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

Also by Richard Yates

Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Disturbing the Peace
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Liars in Love
The Easter Parade
A Good School
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Praise for Revolutionary Road

The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald

Nick Hornby, Guardian Books of the Year

Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely and brilliantly alive...a masterpiece

Tennesse Williams

I hand out copies of Revolutionary Road to anyone who will take them...one of the most moving and exact portraits of suburbia in all of American literature

David Hare, Observer

The Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation

Kurt Vonnegut

The best novel ever written about the death of the American dream

Kate Atkinson, Daily Telegraph
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