Revolutionary Road [J0187]

2000 PB reprint of the 1961 original. Nice clean condition. 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. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Revolutionary Road is at once a brilliant piece of American literature, zeroed in on a specific slice of American life in the mid 50's, and a brutal analysis of what this particular slice of life fails to provide for some. It's an American Tragedy as written by Yates rather than Theodore Dreiser."; "The persistent, inching devastation that comes with daily life in 1950s suburbia."; "A deeply introspective tragedy of 1950s American suburban life. Yates presents a bold and evocative depiction of conformity and the banalities of life."