Revolutionary Road
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:13th Dec '07
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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.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.
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 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 *
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 *
- Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009
ISBN: 9780099518624
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm
Weight: 245g
352 pages