Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates
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CHOSEN BY LIONEL SHRIVER AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE READ

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIONEL SHRIVERHailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"The excellence of Revolutionary Road lies in the integrity with which its author depicts the Wheelers' disintegrated marriage... [the characters reveal themselves] with an intensity that excited the reader's compassion as well as his interest." - The Times

"A cracking read, and much funnier than the film." - Polly Williams, Red

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