The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
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The Easter Parade
A Novel

Author: Richard Yates

Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2009

Synopsis

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them 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 classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.

About Richard Yates

Richard Yates was 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, as well as the short story collections Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in 1992.

About Kristoffer Tabori

Kristoffer Tabori has been involved in the world of television, film and theatre since he was six years old.  As a director he won an Emmy, The Theatre World Award, The LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Award, and ten Drama-logue Awards.  He has lent his voice to a number of films including Alpha Protocol, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition, Endwar, and Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and in television to Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda.  Tabori has read a range of Earphones Award-winning audiobooks.  His work includes narrating Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, Jack Finny's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the compilation Tales for a Stormy Night.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 25, 2021

With a style flatter than a pancake that’s been run over by a steamroller three or four times this novel races through the woebegone lives of two American sisters from the 1930s to the 1970s through hideously embarrassing parents, grisly boyfriends, dreadful marriages, tiresome offspring, fading loo......more

Goodreads review by Mark on February 08, 2013

Only Johnny Got His Gun can stand toe to toe with The Easter Parade in the unsettling, horrific way it takes one person's life (and in the case of Parade, several other people besides) and makes you ask yourself, Why the hell are we even here? With the case Yates brings to the table, you can't refut......more

Goodreads review by Banu on February 14, 2019

yates müthiş bir yazar. amerikan orta sınıfını onun kadar ustalıklı anlatan kaç yazar var bilmiyorum. bu romanında ise kadınları bu kadar iyi anlatması beni hayretlere düşürdü. "iki kız kardeşin ilişkisini, yaşanan gelgitleri sen nasıl bu kadar iyi bilebiliyorsun be adam" diye bağırasım var. çünkü a......more

Quotes

“Yates writes powerfully and enters completely and effortlessly into the lives of his characters . . . A spare yet wrenching tale.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An elegant, moving novel, quietly poignant.” —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post

“Invigorating and even gripping. The dialogue is artful enough to sound natural. In his descriptive prose every word works quietly to inspire the illusion that things are happening by themselves . . . A literary achievement.” —Paul Gray, Time

“Exact, indisputable, and moving.” —Richard Todd, The Atlantic

“Extraordinarily good . . . Written with the force and simplicity of absolute truth.” —The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle

“The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal . . . The Easter Parade has an astonishing sweep and weight.” —Stuart O'Nan, The Boston Book Review

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