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Three Junes / Julia Glass.
LIBRA - Special PS3607.L37 T48 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glass, Julia, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scots--United States--Fiction.
- Scots.
- Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Long Island (N.Y.).
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- United States.
- Scotland--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 353 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. Told in three intertwined novellas, Three Junes spans Greece, Scotland, and New York to bring the reader into the fold of one memorable Scottish family. 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.
- Notes:
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2002
- ISBN:
- 0385721420
- 9780385721424
- OCLC:
- 52170145
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