By Julia Glass ISBN-13: 9780307377937 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication date: 4/1/2014 Pages: 400 My Rating: 3 Stars Since this was my first book by Julia Glass, possibly would have enjoyed it better if I had read her previous books to learn more about the characters backgr...
This is more three related stories--a short novel flanked by two novellas--than an integrated novel. They're united by being set in three June months and one character appears in all three stories--Fenno MacLeod. He's a supporting player in the bookend third-person stories and the first person narra...
I didn't like the triptych format, just out of personal taste. Also, I was expecting more plot. I'm interested in character studies (I absolutely loved The Epicure's Lament, for example, which is similarly plotless), but I think I'm too lowbrow to enjoy simply eavesdropping on the lives of upper-mid...