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Synopsis
Richard Yates's 1976 novel is considered one of his finest works. The story of two sisters and their thwarted lives, THE EASTER PARADE, like much of Yates's fiction, explores failure in all its aspects.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce."
Industry Reviews
"[Yates] has two great technical gifts. First, for vivid drama: realistic narrative and dialogue that is both crisp and rich. And second, for direct, uncluttered eloquence: a prose of great clarity and perceptiveness. When these work together--usually at a moment of collapse--the effect is shattering....The style of EASTER PARADE is a little more detached and the book is funnier than Yates's earlier work, occsionally opening up a satirical distance between the authorial voice and the characters....On the whole, though, EASTER PARADE is a theatre of unrelieved humiliation, disappointment, and pain....Though executed with considerable inventiveness and insight, a numb blankness dominates this book, as it does Yates's others."
London Review of Books - Theo Tait (02/06/2003)
"...at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal."
(10/01/1999)
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