Synopsis

What the critics say

I know of few novels more fearless. Or bleak. Or cruel. Or funny. Or heartbreaking
- Sam Mendes, Vogue

By all means buy your popcorn and book your seat in the cinema, but pick up the paperback first
- Irish Times

So artful, so overwhelming, so beautifully written and so incredibly honest too...as a husband and a father I identified with every single observation
- Matt Weiner, creator of 'Mad Men'

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

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

Editor's Comments

Every so often you come across a book that surprises you by its power. It's plot at first glance may seem unassuming, its subject matter may not be dramatic, but from the moment you finish it you find yourself pressing it into the hands of friends and recommending it to everyone you know. Revolutionary Road is one of those rare books