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The Whole World Over (2006)

door Julia Glass

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her fourâ??yearâ??old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, a traditional gay man who has become her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart.
It is at Walterâ??s restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenieâ??s coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she acceptsâ??and finds herself heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision will change the course of several lives within and beyond Greenieâ??s orbit. Alan, alone in New York, must face down his demons; Walter, eager for platonic distraction, takes in his teenage nephew. Yet Walter cannot steer clear of love trouble, and despite his enforced solitude, Alan is still surrounded by women: his powerful sister, an old flame, and an animal lover named Saga, who grapples with demons all her own. As for Greenie, living in the shadow of a charismatic politician leads to a series of unforeseen consequences that separate her from her only child. We watch as folly, chance, and determination pull all these lives together and apart over a year that culminates in the fall of the twin towers at the World Trade Center, an event that will affirm or confound the choices each character has madeâ??or has refused to face.
Julia Glass is at her best here, weaving a glorious tapestry of lives and lifetimes, of places and people, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important, and often most fragile, connections to others. In The Whole World Over she has given us another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary
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What a Great Book!

The first big surprise was that Walter was not to be a boring aside minor character in Greenie's rapidly widening circle.
His trajectory of love and humor was totally intriguing.

I'll miss Ray's conversations a lot! As well, Tall George and his plain-speaking words.

Despite feeling empathy for Saga, her travails became rather contrived, slow, and wore down the plot.
It was great to trade her for (finally) honestly angry Alan.

Maybe that was the ending draw for Greenie? Sure wish she had just divorced Alan and that he had
felt free enough to happily share George and, like Walter, to find his own great Fenno! ( )
  m.belljackson | Sep 10, 2021 |
Greenie est pâtissière à Greenwich village. Lorsque le gouverneur du Nouveau Mexique goûte à ses desserts, il lui propose de traverser le pays pour entrer à son service. Mais Greenie est mariée à Alan, psychologue. Ils ont un fils de quatre ans. Et cela voudrait également dire abandonner Walter, son ami cuisinier, et tous les autres. Greenie décide de sauter le pas. Mais est-ce bien pour le meilleur ?
Cet épais roman se lit facilement. Les personnages sont assez complexes, et on se laisse embarquer dans l'histoire de cette femme qui, poussée par un désir d'accomplissement, quitte la sécurité de sa vie bien rangée pour aller vers l'inconnu. De beaux passages sur la pâtisserie.
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  MEDIATHEQUE.AUCH | Dec 11, 2020 |
I'm not sure how I made it through this one - except as helping me get to sleep! I liked the interweaving of the various New York characters, but unfortunately they were for the most part boring (Saga's was the most interesting story) and the reader's voice interpretations of them were sometimes irritating (especially Walter and George). Oh well. ( )
  cindywho | May 27, 2019 |
Good story but with so many characters it seemed like a collection of stories about people living in NYC. I could never figure out exactly who the main character was as each chapter was in a different voice. Writing good but unfocused. ( )
  LivelyLady | Feb 19, 2017 |
Sure the stories tie together, but so loosely it was hard to remember why we cared as we changed stories. And George, the precocious little son? Annoyed the crap out of me. To the point where it really impacted my impression of the book. ( )
  mamashepp | Mar 29, 2016 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her fourâ??yearâ??old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, a traditional gay man who has become her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart.
It is at Walterâ??s restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenieâ??s coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she acceptsâ??and finds herself heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision will change the course of several lives within and beyond Greenieâ??s orbit. Alan, alone in New York, must face down his demons; Walter, eager for platonic distraction, takes in his teenage nephew. Yet Walter cannot steer clear of love trouble, and despite his enforced solitude, Alan is still surrounded by women: his powerful sister, an old flame, and an animal lover named Saga, who grapples with demons all her own. As for Greenie, living in the shadow of a charismatic politician leads to a series of unforeseen consequences that separate her from her only child. We watch as folly, chance, and determination pull all these lives together and apart over a year that culminates in the fall of the twin towers at the World Trade Center, an event that will affirm or confound the choices each character has madeâ??or has refused to face.
Julia Glass is at her best here, weaving a glorious tapestry of lives and lifetimes, of places and people, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important, and often most fragile, connections to others. In The Whole World Over she has given us another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary

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