The Easter Parade, (Paperback)

from PriscillaW

Richard Yates has had something of a revival lately. I've wanted to read "The Easter Parade" ever since I heard it mentioned in "Hannah and Her Sisters," where Barbara Hershey's character Lee thank...

from mpmills

The first line of this novel sums up the book, "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed the trouble began with their parent's divorce." Sarah and Em...

from marcyjill

It's all about the writing. "The Easter Parade" is bleak to the point of almost being without any hope, but I couldn't put it down. I am sure that in the hand's of less-talented writer, this would ...

from kukulaj

Sarah and Emily are sisters. Yates takes us from their childhood through their middle age. He tells us in the first sentence that their lives are not easy. It's a damned if you do, damned if you do...

from Adayinthelife

The Easter Parade is just as excellently written and seemingly effortlessly crafted as anything else out of Richard Yates catalogue. In all of Yates short stories and novels the characters are dens...