Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only around the corner. This story tells how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
Collects "Revolutionary Road," about a tragic marriage; "The Easter Parade," about two sisters who are greatly affected by their parents' divorce; and "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness," in which men and women struggle to better their situations despite adversity.
In an attempt to escape his domineering mother, Robert Prentice joins the military and embarks on a tour to fight in Europe, while his mother, Alice, remains conflicted with her own ideals and aspirations to become a sculpture.
Frank and April Wheeler become dissolutioned with their mediocre lives and decide to move to France in order to develop their true artistic sensibilities.
New York intellectuals Frank and April Wheeler move to the suburbs of Connecticut in 1955 and soon learn that the American dream is not at all what they expected.
