Three Junes: A novelNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing 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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... mother, Paul turned off the motor and listened to her gossip, never meanly but with relish. He was surprised at how much he enjoyed listening. The car was warm now, and the windows had shed their crystalline frost. Softened by heat, the ...
... mother, Paul turned off the motor and listened to her gossip, never meanly but with relish. He was surprised at how much he enjoyed listening. The car was warm now, and the windows had shed their crystalline frost. Softened by heat, the ...
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... ,” said Fenno. “You're so uptight.” Paul sighed. “Do you want me not to like him? I've spent the sum of a few hours in his company. And if I'm 'up tight,' it's probably because your mother's having her chest sliced open first.
... ,” said Fenno. “You're so uptight.” Paul sighed. “Do you want me not to like him? I've spent the sum of a few hours in his company. And if I'm 'up tight,' it's probably because your mother's having her chest sliced open first.
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A novel Julia Glass. probably because your mother's having her chest sliced open first thing tomorrow.” Fenno's proliferating Americanisms depressed Paul, as if they were proof that he had chosen, literally, new patronage. (Of Paul's ...
A novel Julia Glass. probably because your mother's having her chest sliced open first thing tomorrow.” Fenno's proliferating Americanisms depressed Paul, as if they were proof that he had chosen, literally, new patronage. (Of Paul's ...
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... mother's son; Dennis, a romantic like his father but without intellectual cravings, was (after years of meandering) studying to be a chef. When these two came of age and, simultaneously, emptied the small trusts left by their ...
... mother's son; Dennis, a romantic like his father but without intellectual cravings, was (after years of meandering) studying to be a chef. When these two came of age and, simultaneously, emptied the small trusts left by their ...
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... mother's neck, holding fast even in sleep. The mother's gaze is fixed elsewhere, perhaps on a beautiful sunset. “That's marvellous. I love how you've painted her hair.” “I like to draw people on the ferries. Portraits—that's what I like ...
... mother's neck, holding fast even in sleep. The mother's gaze is fixed elsewhere, perhaps on a beautiful sunset. “That's marvellous. I love how you've painted her hair.” “I like to draw people on the ferries. Portraits—that's what I like ...
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