The Easter Parade

Richard Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a chronicler of mid-20th century mainstream American life, often cited as artistically residing somewhere between J.D. Salinger and John Cheever. He is regarded as the foremost novelist of the post-WWII Age of Anxiety.

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:Richard Yates

页数:240

出版时间:2008

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099518563

丛书系列:Vintage Yates

图书标签:小说英文原版RichardYates理查德·耶茨美国文学美国文学英文

The famous opening line of the novel warns of the bleak narrative to follow, "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce." Emily and Sarah Grimes are sisters who share little in terms of character but much in terms of disappointment with their lives. Emily, the more intellectual and cosmopolitan of the two, seeks love in numerous disappointing affairs and short-term relationships while Sarah, the prettier and more conventional sister, marries young and bears children to an uncouth and abusive husband. Their troubled, rootless mother, Pookie, like many Yatesian matriarchs, is likely modeled on his own mother, who was nicknamed "Dookie". The novel, beginning in the 1930s when the sisters are children and ending in the 1970s with Sarah's death, primarily revolves around Emily as the book's central character, though the book employs Yates' characteristic and seamless shifts of consciousness throughout.

读后感

耶茨总爱写这样的女文青：受过一定的教育，想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿，又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April，这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了？作为丈夫的杰克，就算无功，...  

在去鼓浪屿的途中读了这本书。读后我把书留在了返程的飞机上。回到家，回到妈妈身边让她紧紧抱着我，还好这世上还有一个人真心关心我。我不要孤独。 这本小说的叙述方式是平铺直述的，象似毫无波澜，但实际上是直扣人的内心深处，毫不留情。他不给你答案，不给你希...  

美国作家理查德·耶茨（Richard Yates，1926—1992）曾被英国《泰晤士报》称为“被遗忘的最优秀的美国作家”。耶茨是真优秀，也真的被遗忘过。他被认为是“焦虑时代的伟大作家”，有人把他和写“爵士时代”（美国20世纪20年代）的菲茨杰拉德相比，他的影响遍及雷蒙德·卡佛、安...  

耶茨总爱写这样的女文青：受过一定的教育，想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿，又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April，这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了？作为丈夫的杰克，就算无功，...  

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高三

Loneliness,misery,unhappiness,suffering. Life is always full of things like that. 看完喘不过气来,这也是why Yates「难读」,因为他写的并不是能搞死人的绝望,而是永恒不变的失落/失望/失败,,

在不断累积的期望中一口气读完全书，却发现等待着她们的未来并不会更好，只会越来越糟。偶尔看到自己的影子。

在不断累积的期望中一口气读完全书，却发现等待着她们的未来并不会更好，只会越来越糟。偶尔看到自己的影子。

在去德里的飞机上一口气读完。The best novel I've read in a long long time. 惊心。两姐妹孤独自私懦弱不知道自己要什么。像你我一样。