Three Junes
by Julia Glass
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Author: Julia GlassEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deckle Edge
Published: 2002-09-05
ISBN: 0375422412
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Pantheon
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Book Review: "smart, beautiful dogs."
Summary: 4 Stars
Three Junes is a novel for poetry lovers, written with acuity and precision. The first two parts have as background two vivid, full-of-life characters who are lost to premature, awful diseases, first Maureen, then Paul McLeod. The family lives in Scotland and raises sheep and sheepdogs. The second section is narrated by their eldest son Fenno, a sensitive, introspective gay man who has moved to the New York's West Village, and opened an electic bookstore featuring avian lore and a talking multihued parrot. In developing Fenno's fully drawn character, the author has described an outgoing, animal-loving mother and, like Fenno, a quiet, unassuming father. Maureen's vivacity breathes much life into the first part, which was previously published as an award winning novella called "Collies." She gives much of herself to raising her "smart, beautiful dogs," and it seems that Fenno carries with him a bit of a burden from an early displacement of human affection.Glass writes musically, and she writes about lacunae, the air between people. Her voices are mostly male and her prose is written in a slight Scots accent, not challenging like Irvine Welsh, and sometimes too simple, identifying its origin by substituting "boot" for car trunk, for example. Another small quibble concerns references in the second and third parts, events taking places successively in months of June, to the first section. This makes it a little too obvious that "Collies" was published separately.
But this is a small detraction and doesn't hurt this beautiful saga of family and friends, the spaces between them, the effect they have on each other without sometimes knowing. I have left out quite a few finely drawn characterizations; the novel's strongest point is that it is full of them.
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