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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... things, picking up odd stones to examine and discard. Paul buys no souvenirs. He should send cards to the boys —he did when they were in fact boys—but the kinds of messages adults send one another on postcards remind him precisely of ...
... things, picking up odd stones to examine and discard. Paul buys no souvenirs. He should send cards to the boys —he did when they were in fact boys—but the kinds of messages adults send one another on postcards remind him precisely of ...
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... heard in keening rifts between gunfire or in continuous horrific pleadings—all those dire things, Paul had thought when he shipped out, might plant in him the indelible passion of a survivor, a taut inner coil like the.
... heard in keening rifts between gunfire or in continuous horrific pleadings—all those dire things, Paul had thought when he shipped out, might plant in him the indelible passion of a survivor, a taut inner coil like the.
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... thing more from her!” But if Maureen went easy on the boys, she was strict with her dogs. The pups were whelped in the scullery off the kitchen and slept in the house, with their mother, for the first two months. Every day, Maureen took ...
... thing more from her!” But if Maureen went easy on the boys, she was strict with her dogs. The pups were whelped in the scullery off the kitchen and slept in the house, with their mother, for the first two months. Every day, Maureen took ...
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... things differently? Anna, though: Anna was born a woman of the world.” She smiles at her friend, who's talking to Jack. Fern is prettier without the hat. Her wet hair is contained in a flat coil against her skull. She has a long ...
... things differently? Anna, though: Anna was born a woman of the world.” She smiles at her friend, who's talking to Jack. Fern is prettier without the hat. Her wet hair is contained in a flat coil against her skull. She has a long ...
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A novel Julia Glass. “Absurd the things people say. I mean, people think we don't have a single tree in the entire city, for God's sake, that you have to carry an Uzi to feel safe, that sadistic black boys roam the streets in search of ...
A novel Julia Glass. “Absurd the things people say. I mean, people think we don't have a single tree in the entire city, for God's sake, that you have to carry an Uzi to feel safe, that sadistic black boys roam the streets in search of ...
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