The Easter Parade
by:
Richard Yates (author)
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional...
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Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her love affairs never really satisfy her. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099518563 (0099518562)
Publish date: April 3rd 2008
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 226
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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