Julia Glass
Auteur van Three Junes
Over de Auteur
Julia Glass was born March 23, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award in 2002. Her latest novel is entitled, The Widower's tale. She grew up in Lincoln, MA, and graduated from Yale in 1978. She lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts with her partner, toon meer photographer Dennis Cowley. She has two children and works as a freelance journalist and editor. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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The novel both requires and rewards close reading. Details critical to understanding a situation, such as Paul's age at the time of his trip, are provided just far enough apart and are not explicitly connected, making it easy to overlook the ridiculousness of a man in his late sixties or early seventies infatuated with and hoping to seduce a "girl" in her twenties. Other details are presented without explanation: Fenno overhearing Mal breaking dishes; only much later will this scene be associated with its impetus: the difficult relationship between Mal and his mother.
One weakness of the novel is that both "Collies" and "Boys" seem superfluous to the real story told in "Upright" and could have been eliminated without impairing the novel's emotional impact. The technique Julia Glass employs to slowly show the growth of Fenno's character through the humanity in Mal's death by alternating between painful present and equally painful past is simply brilliant and would stand on its own. My other observation is that Glass often introduces events which should be life-changing (e.g. hints and allegations of infidelity on the part of Maureen) but ultimately leaves them unresolved. In this vein, the relationships between Paul and Fern and particularly Fern and Tony end up feeling contrived because no one involved recognizes the not insignificant familial or romantic relationships between Paul and Fenno and Fenno and Tony.
Despite these criticisms, Three Junes is a rewarding read for both the story it tells and the manner in which it is told.… (meer)