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Bonds of Love and Loss |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Edward Hower |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 1,993 Words, 11,919 Characters |
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THREE JUNES
Julia Glass
Publisher:New York: Pantheon, 2002
353 pp., $25.00
Julia Glass' first novel, Three Junes, which won last year's National Book Award, is a sensitive portrayal of family relationships and also an exploration of how an intimate friendship can become as strong as ties between kin. The author, who once studied painting, modeled the book after a triptych--a three-part altarpiece in which a central portrait is surrounded by two subsidiary figures. Each of the novel's sections is set during the month of June in a different year (1989, 1995, and 1999). The centerpiece of her arrangement is the life of a gay Scots expatriate named Fenno who owns a bookshop in New York's Greenwich Village. Fenno must face three deaths: those of his parents in Britain and of a neighbor in...
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...uses to address his beloved parrot, "Now there was a short, vivid life, wouldn't you say?" As if in affirmation, the sky "released an unexpected downpour. It sounded like a truckload of glass beads spilling on the pavement out front. Felicity answered with a passionate glissando."
Though flawed, Julia Glass' Three Junes succeeds eloquently in affirming the bonds of family and loving friendship.
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