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The extraordinary complexities of love
Pantheon
June 2006
Featuring: Greenie Duquette
528 pages
ISBN: 0375422749
Hardcover
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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 four--year--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 Walter's restaurant that the visiting governor of
New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo
her away from the city to be his chef. For reasons both
ambitious and desperate, she accepts--and finds herself
heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision
will change the course of several lives within and beyond
Greenie'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 made--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 complexities of love.
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