"There were also first time discoveries. Having heard for years that Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road was one of the great but underappreciated American novels, I searched it out. I have spent the months since then pressing it into the hands of anybody who will take it."

-- Richard Lacayo, introducing Time's 100 Best Novels.



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

-- William Styron, on Revolutionary Road



"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, on Revolutionary Road



"Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is."

-- Tennessee Williams, on Revolutionary Road



"One of the few novels I know that could be called flawless."

-- James Atlas, on Revolutionary Road



"A treasure, a jewel, a whole trove is Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road....Mr. Yates's eyes and ears are gifts from heaven. I think I know of no recent novel that has so impressed me, for the manners and mores of his people are, it seems to me, perfectly observed."

-- Dorothy Parker, writing for Esquire



"The best short-story collection ever written by an American."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, on Eleven Kinds of Loneliness