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The Easter Parade
Richard Yates
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Description for The Easter Parade
Paperback. 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. This novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099518563
SKU
V9780099518563
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Ref
99-98
About Richard Yates
Richard Yates was born in 1926 in New York and lived in California. His prize-winning stories began to appear in 1953 and his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1961. He is the author of eight other works, including the novels A Good School, The Easter Parade, and Disturbing the Peace, and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.
Reviews for The Easter Parade
Poignant tale… His tales are wonderfully gloomy and self-referential.
Jancis Robinson
Waitrose Weekend
[The Easter Parade is] Richard Yates' best novel, which makes it wonderful. From the first sentence to the last...I loved the book
Joan Didion Few men since Flaubert have offered such sympathy to women whose lives are hell
Kurt Vonnegut One of the United States' finest post-war novelists and short-story writers.He wrote some of the best fiction of his generation; it continues to give pleasure to all those readers who are fortunate enough to discover it
Independent
A brave, brilliant book
Sunday Herald
As touching as it is real, as beautiful as it is sad. Like a softer, subtler, less salty Updike, Yates expounds a poignant, suburban American realism
Time Out
A tour de force...an unflinching novel of rare power
Mordecai Richler That Yates manages to make the novel not only readable but also mesmerizing is testament to his powers as a storyteller... storytelling that is simultaneously easy to digest and hugely satisfying.
Leyla Sanai
www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com
Jancis Robinson
Waitrose Weekend
[The Easter Parade is] Richard Yates' best novel, which makes it wonderful. From the first sentence to the last...I loved the book
Joan Didion Few men since Flaubert have offered such sympathy to women whose lives are hell
Kurt Vonnegut One of the United States' finest post-war novelists and short-story writers.He wrote some of the best fiction of his generation; it continues to give pleasure to all those readers who are fortunate enough to discover it
Independent
A brave, brilliant book
Sunday Herald
As touching as it is real, as beautiful as it is sad. Like a softer, subtler, less salty Updike, Yates expounds a poignant, suburban American realism
Time Out
A tour de force...an unflinching novel of rare power
Mordecai Richler That Yates manages to make the novel not only readable but also mesmerizing is testament to his powers as a storyteller... storytelling that is simultaneously easy to digest and hugely satisfying.
Leyla Sanai
www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com