![]() ![]() Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. Richard Yates’s 1961 novel Revolutionary Road the basis for Sam Mendes’s eagerly awaited new film hits the list for the first time ever this week. This Welty/Yates leaf was acquired directly from the publisher's stock. According to the publisher, Yates chose not to autograph his pages in contrast to Eudora Welty who, as typical with her generous nature, did. Lord John Press published two limited editions of LORD JOHN SIGNATURES and, presumably in case of book production errors, prepared extra sheets which too were signed prior to binding by the various celebrities, political figures, and authors featured in the book's handsome leather-bound and clothbound copies. The leaf is in fine condition and suitable for framing. Please note that the authors' portrait images are lithographically printed and are not actual photographic prints. the book's page 38) has a b/w portrait image of author Richard Yates with a facsimile signature. Source for information on Yates, Richard Waiden: The Scribner Encyclopedia of American. page 37) has a b/w portrait image of Pulitzer Prize winning author Eudora Welty with the image dimensions being H 5 7/8" x L 5" and Welty's blue ink original signature is to the image's immediate right. Allen was attracted to the novel due to his appreciation for "books that explore the psyches of women, particularly intelligent ones.Single unbound leaf (H 7 3/4" x L 10 1/8") representing pages 37 and 38 of the 1991 Lord John Press book titled LORD JOHN SIGNATURES. ![]() Lee tells Eliot that she "loved" the book and that he was right because "it had very special meaning" for her. The novel is mentioned in Woody Allen's film Hannah and Her Sisters (1986): Lee ( Barbara Hershey), one of the titular "sisters", thanks her brother-in-law Eliot ( Michael Caine) for lending her the book. In 2017, Yates’s daughter, Monica, began work on a film adaptation. The novel was a finalist for the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award. They spoke now of his body of work and raved over the effortless elegance of his prose and the depth of his tragic vision." The publication of The Easter Parade marked the beginning of a relatively stable and productive period for Yates, and the book has been championed by Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, Larry McMurtry and Tao Lin, among others. A year after the critically panned Disturbing the Peace, critics hailed him as an American master. Stewart O'Nan notes " The Easter Parade signaled the resurgence of Richard Yates. Their troubled, rootless mother Pookie, like many Yatesian matriarchs, is likely modeled on his own mother, who was nicknamed Dookie. ![]() It primarily revolves around Emily as the book's central character, but the book employs Yates' characteristic shifts of consciousness throughout. The novel begins in the 1930s, when the sisters are children, and ends in the 1970s several years after Sarah's death. Sarah, the prettier and more conventional one, marries young and bears children to an uncouth and abusive husband. ![]() Yatess fictional world challenges the myth of the 'American dream.' His carefully drawn, unexceptional characters. Emily, the younger and more intellectual and cosmopolitan of the two, seeks love in numerous disappointing affairs and short-term relationships. Richard Yates 1926 American novelist, short story writer, and scriptwriter. 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 are sisters who share little in terms of character, but much in terms of disappointment with their lives. Along with Revolutionary Road, his debut novel, the book is considered to be Yates' finest work. Published in 1976, Yates's book explores the tragic lives of two sisters. The Easter Parade is a novel by American writer Richard Yates. ![]()
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