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Three Junes
Julia Glass
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Description for Three Junes
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In this captivating debut novel, Julia Glass depicts the life and loves of the McLeod family during three crucial summers spanning a decade. Paul McLeod, patriarch of a Scottish family and a retired newspaper editor and proprietor, is on a package tour of Greece after the death of his wife. The story of his departure from the family home in Scotland and late gesture towards some sort of freedom gives way to his eldest son's life (Fenno). Fenno protects his heart by putting himself under emotional quarantine throughout his life as a young gay man in Manhattan. When he returns ... Read more
In this captivating debut novel, Julia Glass depicts the life and loves of the McLeod family during three crucial summers spanning a decade. Paul McLeod, patriarch of a Scottish family and a retired newspaper editor and proprietor, is on a package tour of Greece after the death of his wife. The story of his departure from the family home in Scotland and late gesture towards some sort of freedom gives way to his eldest son's life (Fenno). Fenno protects his heart by putting himself under emotional quarantine throughout his life as a young gay man in Manhattan. When he returns ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099460299
SKU
V9780099460299
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Ref
99-2
About Julia Glass
Julia Glass was awarded a 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction writing and has won several prizes for her short stories, including three Nelson Algren Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award.
Reviews for Three Junes
Like Michael Cunningham's The Hours, which won the Pulitzer, Three Junes won its own prize (National Book Award) and deserves it-a highly accomplished and sensitive novel, all the more remarkable for being Julia Glass's first.
The Sunday Telegraph
Free of gimmickry, Three Junes brilliantly rescues, then refurbishes, the traditional plot-driven novel.
The New York Times
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The Sunday Telegraph
Free of gimmickry, Three Junes brilliantly rescues, then refurbishes, the traditional plot-driven novel.
The New York Times
Three ... Read more