Book description
THIS ORANGE INHERITANCE EDITION OF Revolutionary Road IS
PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and
each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant
generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of The
Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next
generation and why. Lionel Shriver chose Revolutionary Road.
This is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful,
and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the
dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking
compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April
mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each
other, but their own best selves.
'I can't think of a better novel to hand on to readers growing up
today than Revolutionary Road' Lionel Shriver
Richard Yates was born in 1926 in Yonkers, New York. After serving
in the US Army during the Second World War, he worked as a publicity
writer for the Remington Rand Corporation, and for a brief period in
the sixties as a speech writer for Senator Robert Kennedy. His
prize-winning stories first appeared 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.Richard Yates was twice
divorced and the father of three daughters. He died in 1992.
Lionel Shriver was born in the United States and now lives in
London. She is the author of The Female of the Species, Checker and
the Derailleurs, The Bleeding Heart , Ordinary Decent
Criminals, A Perfectly Good Family, Double Fault, The
Post-Birthday World, So Much for That and The New
Republic. Her seventh novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin,
won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.
