Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 8, 2008 - Fiction - 355 pages

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they 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 crumble.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.


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What people are saying

Review: Revolutionary Road

User Review  - Inger - Goodreads

I hate this book, I hate it with a passion. I wanted to throw it across the room, stamp on it, tear it apart and set fire to it. Still, it sits there in my bookshelf as a reminder that I should never ...

Review: Revolutionary Road

User Review  - Sarah Smith - Goodreads

Set in the 1950s this novel written by Richard Yates is quite something. It deals with the tale of April and Frank Wheeler, a young married couple, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs and from the ...

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Revolutionary Road
• Author: Richard Yates
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 0307456277, 9780307456274
• Length: 355 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Family Life; Fiction / Literary