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Three Junes by Julia Glass
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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 travelling 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 centre 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 neighbour 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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Julia Glass was awarded the 2002 National Book Award for fiction, the 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and has won several prizes for her short stories, including three Nelson Algren Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award. "Collies," the first part of Three Junes, won the 1999 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella. She lives with her family in New York City, USA, where she works as a freelance journalist and editor. |
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