Revolutionary Road

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 0.245 kg
Dimensions 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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format

Language

Pages

352

publisher

Year Published

2007-12-13

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099518627

About The Author

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.

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

Other text

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

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