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A carregar... The Easter Parade: A Novel (original 1976; edição 2001)por Richard Yates (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. "Ninguna de las hermanas Grimes estaba destinada a ser feliz, y al echar una mirada retrospectiva siempre da la impresión de que los problemas comenzaron con el divorcio de sus padres." Así empieza esta magistral novela del autor de Vía Revolucionaria: la historia de dos hermanas que construyen sus vidas por caminos opuestos. Para Sarah, el matrimonio y la vida familiar son un refugio seguro, aunque no garanticen la felicidad. Emily, en cambio, busca en un hombre tras otro las respuestas que no puede darse a sí misma, y procura en vano huir de la soledad. The writing was easy to read and the story flowed well but the characters lacked depth for me. The main character was as flat as cardboard, despite her 'promiscuous' nature I felt like she was a robot, devoid of emotion or personality. Her sister had a little more flesh to her but again I just didn't really believe any of them. I'm not sure how they overcame their 'tarnished past' because to me it felt like neither of them really accomplished anything. I'm not sure what the point of this novel was. The plot of this story is heartbreaking. I demanded to be let into the mind of the protagonist, but the author keeps the reader at a distance. This distance really captures the issue of identity for the character and her relationship with herself, her sister, her partners, the world. She lives at a particular distance from everything--and at great cost to happiness. Perhaps the author only intended to tell the story as it unfolded without judgement, which indeed happens. But this kind of distance added, for me, a layer of dissociative tendencies marked by childhood trauma. And for that, it was very well done. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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