The easter parade novel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The troubled, mostly middle-class, constantly drinking and smoking people that filled his books lived in the Yate's world. I read Blake Bailey's biography of Yates, A Tragic Honesty, years ago, and it became so obvious that he was writing what he knew. He is also known for being a dark man himself, one who lead a very troubled life of his own. ![]() "And do you known a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life." Richard Yates is known best for his novel Revolutionary Road - the film version starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. After one sister dies, the surviving (more together) sister observes: "Yes, I'm tired," she said. This older finely-written novel, originally published in 1976, is outstandingly depressing and tells about two girls growing up in a extremely troubled family. ![]()
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