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Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road
paperback
Published:
13 December, 2007
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Description
Prizes
Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099518624 |
| ISBN10 | 0099518627 |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Item Weight | 249 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 197 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
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Author's Bio
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.