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The Easter Parade

A Novel

By Richard Yates

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| Paperback | 9780312278281

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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 marriaContinue

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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  • 'The Easter Parade' by Richard Yates

    If ever a first line was to set the tone for the rest of the book, it is this one: "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce." The sisters are Sarah an ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Sun, 3 Oct 2010

  • Traditional but far from square

    After Houellebecq, after Franzen few novels measure up, and while waiting for the new Updike (Seek My Face: marvellous) to be published here it is probably wise to turn to something simpler, more sensitive, even more conventional. The Easter Parade - ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • 4,5 stars

    Very good reading entertainment, 4,5 points (stars). Nice end

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