false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170354211m/48335.jpg 48335 13 Children of divorced parents, sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes are observed over four decades, and 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 acclaimed novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.AUTHORBIO: Richard Yates is the author of the novels REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE, DISTURBING THE PEACE, THE EASTER PARADE, A GOOD SCHOOL, YOUNG HEARTS CRYING, and COLD SPRING HARBOR, and the story collections ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS, LIARS IN LOVE, and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES. He died in 1992. 1352933 1976 The Easter Parade total:770|5:276|4:291|3:147|2:43|1:13| 770 3084 1146 127 5 3 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat May 19 21:22:13 -0700 2007 Sat May 19 21:23:59 -0700 2007
The last twenty pages made me feel very emotional. The novel is very tight. I like it. I like it more than Revolutionary Road. The Easter Parade is very sad, but then you look at the main character's life and you see that her life was not very sad, really, but much bette...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 30 09:42:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 09:44:47 -0700 2009 Alfred North Whitehead

"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer
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This is the story of two sisters who were 9 and 5 when their parents split up in 1930, after which they move around New York environs with...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 22:56:30 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 13:44:13 -0700 2009
Poor, poor Emmy! She's never understood one single thing in her entire life! :( Poor Emily. If only she could have learned. Hopping right into the sack will get you the man, sure. But it's better to find out first if he's even worth having. Sadly, I've known far too many w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 24 13:43:32 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 18:33:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:44:12 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:45:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:22:17 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:23:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 15:00:51 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 15:03:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 16:39:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:16:41 -0700 2009
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I haven’t seen Revolutionary Road yet, but found one of its alleys, the just re-released Easter Parade. Richard Yates, as long-time Revolutionary Road cult fans know, is an irresistible writer, so minimal and modern and frank, but he feels lik...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 07 10:48:48 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 02 20:53:48 -0800 2009 Easter Parade states from the get go that -- "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce."

Talk about foreshadowing...

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