The Easter Parade : A Novel (CD-Audio)

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 thanks Michael Caine's character Elliott for lending her the book, mentioning it had real meaning for her...

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 Emily Grimes grew up during the 30s and 40s. Their alcoholic mother, Pookie, constantly moved them fro...

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 have been a maudlin story, but in this case Richard Yates has created a beautifully crafted work of ...

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 don't, the choice women have to make. A traditional devoted marriage, or not getting trapped. It's gri...

from BeckyJG

"Human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience." Alfred North Whitehead "Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it." James Gibbons Hunter "Life is divided into the horr...