- Three Junes
"Three Junes" is
Julia Glass ' debut novel. It won theNational Book Award in2002 .Plot summary
"Three Junes" follows the McLeods, a Scottish family, throughout their lives and relationships. Its members are Paul and Maureen, and their sons: Fenno, and twins David and Dennis. At the opening of the book, Paul is on a tour of Greece, Maureen has died from lung cancer, and Fenno is running a bookstore in
New York City . Other important characters include Malachy, Fenno's friend who is a music critic and suffering fromAIDS , and Fern, an unwed pregnant woman, who Paul formerly met on his trip to Greece, trying to recover from her husband's death.The novel is written in three parts. The first takes place in 1989 and is told from Paul's perspective; the second, in 1995 and from Fenno's point of view; the third, in 1999 and from Fern's perspective. As Julia Glass has said herself, the book should be viewed not as a trilogy but rather a
triptych - elements that may seem small in one section play a large role in another, like a triptych, rather than a consecutive series of novels in a trilogy.Release details
*2002, US, Pantheon Books (ISBN 0-375-42144-0), Pub date ? May 2002, hardback (First edition)
External links
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385721420 Order page for "Three Junes" on Amazon.com]
* [http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/three_junes1.asp Reading Group guide for "Three Junes" from Anchor Books]
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