Name: Easter Parade
Price: 13.77 EUR
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Author: Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780099518563

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Physical Book

Author

Richard Yates

Publisher

Vintage

Synopsis "Easter Parade "

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

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He was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1926. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he contracted tuberculosis, and after the war, he worked as an advertising copywriter and screenwriter and wrote speeches for Robert Kennedy. His first novel, Revolutionary Road, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962 and was adapted into a film by Sam Mendes in 2008. Yates wrote six more novels and two collections of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He taught writing at Columbia, Iowa, Wichita, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the New School for Social Research, and spent periods in Europe, Los Angeles, and New York. He died in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1992.

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