Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Jul 2008 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five

Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.

Ratings and reviews

I have never read a more beautiful book. Yes, the story is depressing, and even gruesome at times, but for me, the book is not about the story as much as about how the story is told. And the story is told so magnificently and beautifully. My favorite thing about this book is that it is told from many points of view. Yates' choices regarding from whose point of view certain parts of the story are told are absolutely brilliant. Also, the imagery is just amazing. Yates is incredible.

It a very tragic loving book it was perfect

disappointing

About the author

RICHARD YATES was born in 1926. The author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including Revolutionary Road, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Disturbing the Peace, and The Easter Parade, he was lauded during his lifetime as the foremost novelist of the post-war "age of anxiety." He died in 1992.