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The Easter Parade

by Richard Yates

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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.

Review:

"When it first appeared in 1976, Kirkus noted that 'nobody sings sadder songs of the way things were' than Yates....Kirkus celebrated Yates's strong suit, 'the thing he knows best — failure.' Its gravity 'gives all his books their vulnerability and makes them imperative then and now reading for many people.' And now again." Kirkus Reviews

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"An eloquent, moving novel, quietly poignant." Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post

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"The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal....The Easter Parade has an astonishing sweep and weight." Stewart O'Nan, The Boston Review

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"Extraordinarily good...written with the force and simplicity of absolute truth." The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

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"[A] sad tale of marriage and divorce, and a still sadder one of sexual liberation." Charles McGrath, The New York Times Books of the Century

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"Invigorating and gripping....Every word works quietly to establish the illusion that things are happening by themselves....A literary achievement." Time

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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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Children of divorced parents, Sarah and Emily Grimes grow into two very different women as they struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past. "The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal".--"The Boston Book Review".

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ISBN:
9780312278281
Author:
Yates, Richard
Publisher:
Picador USA
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Sisters
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Children of divorced parents
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literary
Edition Number:
1st Picador USA ed.
Edition Description:
Second Edition
Series Volume:
no. 01-3213V/H
Publication Date:
May 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
822x546x64 47

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