Three Junes
In
the novel's first part, we meet Paul McLeod, the patriarch, who is
touring Greece after the death of his vivacious wife. The story of his
infatuation with a young American artist he meets there, and his gesture
toward a new freedom so late in life, segues into the tour de force of
part two, where we reexperience the privileged but provincial world of
the McLeods--and the cosmopolitan world of the West Village--from the
perspective of Fenno, the eldest son. A lovable, slightly repressed but
self-aware gay man, he leads the life of an aloof expatriate, trying to
protect himself from emotional entanglement--until a worldly neighbor
presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer
makes him an unwitting subject. And in the final part, Fenno crosses
paths with Fern, the woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years
before and who is pregnant with a son she may decide to raise on her
own. All the loves and losses of this rich, emotionally complex book
come together in the fateful meeting of these two characters one
exquisite night in June over a Long Island dinner table
Three Junes
Three Junes
Three Junes
Three Junes
Three Junes
Three Junes
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Three Junes
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