The Easter Parade
by:
Richard Yates (author)
In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage....
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In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312278281 (0312278284)
ASIN: 312278284
Publish date: May 4th 2001
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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...
Zwei Schwestern die kaum unterschiedlicher sein könnten und Richard Yates in Bestform.
"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...
Solidna powieść obyczajowa. Nie jest to szczególnie porywająca lektura, ale warta poświęcenia jej kilku godzin.
Never felt so depressed by the end of a book in my life.Very sad characters. Excellent writing.
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