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.

"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William Styron

"One of the few novels I know that could be called flawless."
--James Atlas, The New York Times Book Review

"A powerful treatment of a characteristically American theme.... A moving and absorbing story."
--The Atlantic Monthly

"Richard Yates belongs with Fitzgerald and Hemingway as the three unarguably great American novelists of the twentieth century."
--David Hare, The Guardian

"A treasure, a jewel, a whole trove is Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road."
--Dorothy Parker, Esquire

About the Author

A native New Yorker, Richard Yates was born in 1926; his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award (in the same year as The Moviegoer and Catch-22). Much admired by peers, he was known during his lifetime as the foremost fiction writer of the post-war "age of anxiety." He published his last novel in 1986, and died in 1992.

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