Julia Glass
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.57 | 39973 Users | 2588 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Three Junes |
| ISBN: | 0385721420 (ISBN13: 9780385721424) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Paul McLeod, Fenno McLeod, Fern Olitsky, Malachy Burns, Tony Best |
| Setting: | Greece,1989 Dumfriesshire, Scotland,1995 Long Island, New York,1999(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (2002) |
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A luminous first novel, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village, and Long Island, that traces the members of a Scottish family as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises.In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage.
Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses.
Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her.
In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love's redemptive powers.
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| Title | : | Three Junes |
| Author | : | Julia Glass |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | April 22nd 2003 by Anchor (first published September 5th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Book Club. Contemporary. Adult Fiction. Literary Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 39973 Users | 2588 ReviewsPiece Out Of Books Three Junes
I could not put this book down! There Ive said it and its been a while since I have. I even missed doing my own writing but the time reading this book wasnt wasted. In fact this last week Ive been taking lessons on characterisation from Julia Glass. I cant remember the last time I read about characters so vividly portrayed. I think that is the main reason I just couldnt stop reading Three Junes. And I must add, the unusual construction kept me intrigued. Three Junes is in three parts. The mainJulia Glass' debut novel is an intricately written multigenerational story about a Scottish family and their friends. It is a triptych with the sections set in the month of June in the years 1989, 1995, and 1999.The father, Paul McLeod, is on a tour of Greece in 1989. He's remembering his marriage to his recently deceased wife whose passion was raising dogs. Paul becomes friends with an American artist, Fern, during the vacation.Paul's son, Fenno, narrates the second and longest part of the
The title implies that this is the story of three women named June. In fact, it refers to three months in three different years of the lives of three very different people. It has a richly described setting with nuanced characters and the plot is quite intriguing. The first section is about a Scottish widower who is trying to heal his grief on a Greek holiday. The second section concerns his eldest son, Fenno, who moves to New York, opens a bookstore specializing in bird books called Plume, and
In a way this is three interconnected books in one. Each "June" story revolves in some way round a death in the family. Because Julia Glass uses a different person's viewpoint to develop each section, one is given more understanding of the various characters. But it is Fenno, the one portrayed as the outsider who is central to the book.The story begins with Paul the father, who first features as the main character. In June 1989 the family in Scotland copes with the death of the mother figure. As
Julia Glass is a superb writer, and my mind sank into her luxurious words the way my body might sink into a thick quilt or warm beach sand. I enjoy stories in which characters' lives interconnect in ways that the characters themselves can't see, and stories that show us how often we think we know someone well when we really don't. I was particularly drawn to the main story of Fenno, the intellectual, emotionally disconnected, ever-yearning gay man who takes us deep into a life that smashes
I found it full of superfluous ramblings that had nothing to do with the story and caused my mind to stray so that when it came back to some relevant point, my mind was no longer engaged. It was so frustrating to keep having to go back to figure out what mattered and what didn't matter. The author is a good writer but not a great writer. Every time the story would get even remotely interesting, the author would stop in her tracks and switch to a different time or character. This choppy writing
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. Interlocking stories that weave back and forth through time, across the Atlantic up to Scotland and down to the Adriatic and over to Manhattan. Spans the course of the life of a mother, her husband, their three sons, those sons' marriages and children, plus many other not-so-minor players.Beautiful language, scenery, dialogue, character development. Best of 2011, or at least the last, freshest, and most vivid in my memory. READ this.
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