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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312278281
ISBN: 0312278284
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 229
Publication Date: May 04, 2001
Publisher: Picador
Sales Rank: 4474
Studio: Picador
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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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I was introduced recently to Yates after reading a tribute to Revolutionary Road. That is a superb novel, yet it is Easter Parade which moved me more. It's an incredibly well written book - not a word is wasted and 60 years or so flow by effortlessly. Yet it is only gradually that we realise how the sisters' early promise fades into a haunting and desparately sad tale of the effects of alcoholism.
Recommended to anyone, but I can guarantee that those who like their own company and a ... Read More
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David Sedaris recommended "The Easter Parade" by Richard Yates on his latest book tour. He really made it sound like a bitter, sour adventure into the lives of two sisters that could satisfy everyone's sado-masochistic side.
Perhaps my review falls under the category of false pretenses, because I found "The Easter Parade" to be pretty vacuous. A majority of it was an easy read, but the character of Emily has fling after fling after fling with these rotten men who do nothing to advance ... Read More
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In reading THE EASTER PARADE, focus on the seamless craft of Richard Yates, not on his bleak story. This story features Sarah and Emily Grimes, who, in youth, seem positioned to enjoy promising, albeit not spectacular, futures. But too little money, too many children, and too much booze erode Sarah's marriage while Emily's good start--a scholarship at Barnard--leads only to bad-luck relationships with troubled men, mediocre jobs, and alcoholism.
What Yates accomplishes with this gloomy ... Read More
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I agree with Orrin Judd's excellent review found elsewhere on this page, but there are a few more things I would like to say about Richard Yates' "The Easter Parade." In his fine biography, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, Blake Bailey writes that if you believe in family, or people can learn from their mistakes then this novel isn't for you. That's an exaggeration, but Yates' book is a dark dissection of the disintegration many American families went through in the mid-20th century. ... Read More
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There is nothing that I can say about Yates that has not been previously articulated adoringly on this site. Suffice to say that it is a true tragedy that his works are not more easily available for consumption by the public.
I assess a bookstore's quality by whether or not it shelves one of Yates' works. Read this book and you will know why.
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