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Three Junes

By Julia Glass

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| Paperback | 9780385721424

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An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade 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 youContinue

An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade 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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  • Three Junes By Julia Glass

    Among the many pleasures of Julia Glass' marvelous first novel, Three Junes, are the numerous small, brilliantly rendered moments the gestures, objects and places that suggest the larger dramas in the lives of the McLeod family. Such casual-seeming m ... (read full critics)

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    This triptych of novellas contains an interesting approach to character development. The use of the same basic core of characters seen from the different points of view of our three narrators definitely adds to the overall story. However, I found the central story "Upright" to ultimately be the st ... (continue)

    This triptych of novellas contains an interesting approach to character development. The use of the same basic core of characters seen from the different points of view of our three narrators definitely adds to the overall story. However, I found the central story "Upright" to ultimately be the strongest of the three, so the addition of "Collies" and "Boys" in some ways almost seemed to distract from the central story. Regardless, this debut effort of Glass's still stands head and shoulders above her sophomore effort - The Whole World Over.

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