Three Junes
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises.
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage....
Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses....
Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her.
In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love’s redemptive powers.
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage....
Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses....
Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her.
In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love’s redemptive powers.
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I feel like I would have enjoyed this more had I read with my eyes and not my ears. While the narrator did a superb job, I had a difficult time following with all of the character shifts. I also did not enjoy the triptych format and feel like the first and third sections should have been sussed out more. But all in all, I enjoyed the book and will look for more by this author.
ummmmm....this book won an award? really? I don't get it. It claims to be 3 summers about this same family, but the last summer seems to focus on this chick the dead father met in the first summer with his sons thrown in for fun and they don't even tie it together so that they even know that anyone knew the same people at different times and had that connection. I still can't figure out the point of this book. It was just rattling on about nothing pretty much. I tried to catch things that might be themes coming back like did their mother really cheat etc. and then nothing ever followed anywhere. It's not fascinating to read about boring slices of dysfunctional people's lives. I don't need a book to get that ;) Yeah would pretty much not recommend this unless you are really desperate and there is nothing else to read for miles around and there is a horrible snowstorm and you are trapped.
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