by Richard Yates, Ричард Йейтс, Sergey Task
Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce. So begins Richard Yates' The Easter Parade, and there couldn't have been a more perfect--and accurate opening. Yates has a talent for telling devastating st...
"Human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience." Alfred North Whitehead "Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing i...
Never felt so depressed by the end of a book in my life.Very sad characters. Excellent writing.
Very sparse and horribly depressing.
Hurt oozes from every page of this story, more explicitly than in much of Revolutionary Road, although the characters are generally somewhat flimsier.This is the story of two sisters who were 9 and 5 when their parents split up in 1930, after which they move around New York environs with their mothe...
The Easter Parade is the story of two sisters, Sarah and Emily. I don't often like male authors,but Yates is an exception, themale author who writes like awoman. This book is as sharp and painful at times as only real life can be. Recommended.
After Revolutionary Road, I swore I would never read Richard Yates again. Not because the book was bad, far from it, but the tragedy and despair that surrounded the story was so palpable I had to recover my sense of equilibrium afterward. However, a few weeks back I read an article on bad book blurb...
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