Product Details:
Publish Date: 4/1/2003
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 1T
Pages:
368
Age Range:
NA
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Paul chose Greece for its predictable whiteness: the blanching heat by day, the rush of stars at night, the glint of the lime-washed houses crowding its coast. Blinding, searing, somnolent, fossilized Greece. (from the first line)
| The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. *Author: Glass, Julia *Publication Date: 2003/04/01 *Number of Pages: 353 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 1.00 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.25 |
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From the Publisher:
A luminous first novel, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village and Long Island, 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. |
Annotation:
In Scotland, during the course of three summers in the 1980s and '90s, Paul MacLeod, his son Fenno, and a woman named Fern work out a complex chain of relationships. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
In Scotland, during the course of three summers in the 1980s and '90s, Paul MacLeod, his son Fenno, and a woman named Fern work out a complex chain of relationships. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Praise
Kirkus Reviews
"Glass makes it all work..., though the parts are not uniformly credible or compelling. Nevertheless, a rather formidable d?but." 04/01/2002 New Yorker
"Glass...writes so well that what might seem like farce is rich, absorbing, and full of life." 09/16/2002
"Glass makes it all work..., though the parts are not uniformly credible or compelling. Nevertheless, a rather formidable d?but." 04/01/2002 New Yorker
"Glass...writes so well that what might seem like farce is rich, absorbing, and full of life." 09/16/2002

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