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Three Junes

By Julia Glass

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| Audio Cassette | 9780739304990

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Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and Continue

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Paul’s death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of his family’s future. A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear. He believes himself safe from all emotional entanglements—until a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer makes him an unwitting subject. Each man draws Fenno into territories of the heart he has never braved before, leading him toward an almost unbearable loss that will reveal to him the nature of love.

Love in its limitless forms—between husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and children—is the force that moves these characters’ lives, which collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. This time it is Fenno who meets and captivates Fern, the same woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years before. Now pregnant with a son of her own, Fern, like Fenno and Paul before him, must make peace with her past to embrace her future. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart—how family ties, both those we’re born into and those we make, can offer us redemption and joy.


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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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  • Three Junes

    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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