JULIA GLASS is the author of Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award; and The Widower’s Tale. Her most recent novel, the highly-acclaimed And the Dark Sacred Night, was published in /5(). Three 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 , Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage. Three 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 , Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is Pages:
Three Junes marks a blessed event for readers of literary fiction everywhere."San Francisco Chronicle "Julia Glass's talent sends chills up my spi≠Three Junes is a marvel."Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls " Three Junes almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains. Julia Glass's talent just sends chills up my spine; her novel, Three Junes, is a marvel. John Casey Three Junes has the rich pleasures of a ninetenth-century novel and the rush of New York life of the last ten years. Three Junes is a novel of family and love by Julia Glass. The story follows the lives of members of the McLeod family of Scotland and the lives of the people they touch. When the novel begins in June , widowed family patriarch and World War II veteran Paul McLeod travels to Greece with a tour group for a change of scenery and to help cope.
Three Junes marks a blessed event for readers of literary fiction everywhere.”–San Francisco Chronicle “Julia Glass’s talent sends chills up my spine; Three Junes is a marvel.”–Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls “Three Junes almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains. Glass’s ability to illuminate and deepen the mysteries of her characters’ lives is extraordinary.”. by Julia Glass ‧ RELEASE DATE: . Readers may be reminded of Evelyn Waugh and, especially, Angus Wilson by the rich characterizations and narrative sweep that grace this fine debut about three summers in—and surrounding—the lives of a prominent and prosperous Scottish family. Glass has made an ambitious debut with a triptych portraying a Scottish family during three fateful summers over a decade of their lives. Julia Glass is also a painter. How do the style, structure, and description of Three Junes reflect her artistic sensibility? How do the various segments, stories, and flashbacks interspersed within the chronological text work together?.
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