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Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Yates |
ISBN: | 0099518783 9780099518785 9780307454621 0307454622 |
OCLC Number: | 809384676 |
Awards: | Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009 |
Description: | 352 pages ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Richard Yates. |
Abstract:
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of 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.
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"One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century" * Sunday Telegraph * "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 Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation" -- Kurt Vonnegut "Easily the best novel I've read this year" -- Nick Hornby "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 * Read more...
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