Revolutionary Road (Vintage Classics)

Revolutionary Road (Vintage Classics)

by RichardYates (Author)

Synopsis

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: Film Tie-In
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 01 Jan 2009

ISBN 10: 0099518783
ISBN 13: 9780099518785
Book Overview: Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into a film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio which is due for release in January 2009.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009.

Media Reviews
One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century * Sunday Telegraph *
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
The Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation -- Kurt Vonnegut
Easily the best novel I've read this year -- Nick Hornby
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 *
Author Bio
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.