The Easter Parade

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Richard Yates (Nueva York, 1926-Alabama, 1992) es el gran cronista de la clase media estadounidense que vivió tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando falleció su obra estaba descatalogada, pero después de que autores de la talla de Richard Ford y Raymond Carver lo reivindicaran como influencia, Yates ha terminado por convertirse en un referente de la literatura estadounidense contemporánea. Sus principales obras son Vía Revolucionaria (1961), adaptada al cine por Sam Mendes, Las hermanas Grimes (1976), el libro de cuentos Once maneras de sentirse solo (1962), Una providencia especial (1969) y Cold Spring Harbor (1986), estas tres últimas publicadas por RBA.