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Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her love affairs never really satisfy her. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time. Richard Yates's masterful novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices, and depicts the different ways they seek to escape from their tarnished family past.… (mais)
bluepiano: One's a fat early 20th-century English novel and the other a spare modern American one but both recount the lives of two sisters, one of them settling into domesticity and the other going further afield to lead an apparently more eventful life. And more strikingly both books leave the reader with a great sense of sadness because both Bennett and Yates convey so overwhelming a sense of the transience and smallness of a life.… (mais)
Easter Parade is an easy read about two sisters and their very different lives. Sarah Grimes marries quickly and has three children while Emily Grimes focuses on her career. Neither has a happy existence as each sister is deeply flawed. Easter Parade has been described as Yates's most autobiographical novel. Many, if not all, of the characters are loosely based in real people in Yates's lifetime. For some individuals, the veil that separates fiction from reality is spider web thin and they are easily identifiable. Many other details are just as transparent; right down to the name of the house on Long Island. It has been determined through other documentation that Richard had based the character of Emily on himself. Interesting. I say interesting because I found Emily to be a sad and lonely woman. She bounced from one meaningless sexual encounter to another. Her relationships are shallow and fleeting because she is miserable at picking men or keeping friendships. At times I wanted her to find love while other times I was annoyed by her shrill personality. ( )
"Ninguna de las hermanas Grimes estaba destinada a ser feliz, y al echar una mirada retrospectiva siempre da la impresión de que los problemas comenzaron con el divorcio de sus padres." Así empieza esta magistral novela del autor de Vía Revolucionaria: la historia de dos hermanas que construyen sus vidas por caminos opuestos. Para Sarah, el matrimonio y la vida familiar son un refugio seguro, aunque no garanticen la felicidad. Emily, en cambio, busca en un hombre tras otro las respuestas que no puede darse a sí misma, y procura en vano huir de la soledad.
The writing was easy to read and the story flowed well but the characters lacked depth for me. The main character was as flat as cardboard, despite her 'promiscuous' nature I felt like she was a robot, devoid of emotion or personality. Her sister had a little more flesh to her but again I just didn't really believe any of them. I'm not sure how they overcame their 'tarnished past' because to me it felt like neither of them really accomplished anything. I'm not sure what the point of this novel was. ( )
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her love affairs never really satisfy her. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship into focus one last time. Richard Yates's masterful novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices, and depicts the different ways they seek to escape from their tarnished family past.
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It has been determined through other documentation that Richard had based the character of Emily on himself. Interesting. I say interesting because I found Emily to be a sad and lonely woman. She bounced from one meaningless sexual encounter to another. Her relationships are shallow and fleeting because she is miserable at picking men or keeping friendships. At times I wanted her to find love while other times I was annoyed by her shrill personality. (