The Easter Parade

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

这本小说讲的是在一个单亲家庭长大的女人一生的故事，这个家庭所导致的结果是使一个弱小的灵魂变成一个勇敢、坚强、理性和独立的人。在这本书中是一个女性，她叫爱米莉。 故事从爱米莉五岁的时候讲起，这时候她的父母已经离婚，爱米莉和姐姐萨拉一起跟着有点神经质又酗酒的母...  

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用户评价

掩卷长叹人生之虚无。还是丁尼生说得妙：”Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath / And after many a summer dies the swan. "

the last chapter makes me very emotional.. is women's strength really so?

一口气读完，看完除了难受和绝望之外想不出其他的词了。故事从始至终都没有所谓的巨大灾难，两个姐妹的人生就这么不动声色地滑到了日常的悲剧里。真心感觉到每个女性的人生都是一部厚厚的苦难史。

how vain in the end everything had turned out to be.

作者像是个温柔而冷静的旁观者，流水般的笔触写出迫人的忧伤。沉稳的笔调下是平静而又残酷的痛和孤独。当Peter说“if we have another girl we might name her after you”时，Emily哭，我也哭，因为我知道她和她姐姐一样，等于是死了。