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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. Scotland, according to her cheery, avuncular service provider, passed a law in 1288 that if a man refused a woman’s proposal on this day, he must pay a fine: anything from a kiss to money that would buy her a silk dress or a fancy pair of gloves. --Erik S. McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism To see what your friends thought of this book, This is the first book I've read by this author, and it will be the last. Current local time in an extensive selection of cities and countries worldwide, in all time zones with DST accounted for. Julia Glass' book "The Whole World Over" celebrates/honors relationships with family and friends in age of post 9/11. The more I read, the more finicky it seems I am becoming. But the more I read, and as more and more peripheral characters got their own main story arcs or glommed onto those of the Duquette-Glaziers, the more I came to not like this book. Simon Tisdall. gah! Please walk. Soon they dragged her from the river, Water from her clothes they wrang. Even nightmares once in a while. Her second novel picks up some of the story lines from the first one but does so quite half-heartedly. “Gorgeous. Something went wrong. This book summed it up better than anything I've read: we were all absorbed with our own lives, and everything we were going through felt very, very important. A truly lovely read. After sex, Alan did not tumble into a callow sleep, the way most men claimed they could not resist doing. “It’s called delegation.” This was the sort of bickering that passed too often now between them, and if Greenie blamed Alan for starting these quarrels, she blamed herself for plunging into the fray. What luck to read two wonderful novels in a row. tags: joy-of-loving. Although some story lines are unexpectedly rich -- the character of Saga annoyed me at first but her story became quite compelling -- in the end there is an overabundance of people one is expected to know and care about. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Vivid characters,you grow to love, want to protect and cheer for. The amount of work they all shared felt just right to Greenie; she could not have taken an order for one more tiny éclair without enlarging the enterprise to a degree where she feared she would begin to lose control. It was good to see Fenno again, but he seemed quite different from Three Junes. In Amsterdam, a lonely young sailor just arrived in the city aboard a ship meets a shy teenager named Annika. It is a bit annoying at points to switch between characters, a device I have never loved, but it kept me reading (and guessing!). Another book about people with too much money having poor personal lives. On the ground floor of a brownstone down the street from Greenie’s apartment, it featured two fireplaces, blue-checked tablecloths, a fashionably weary velvet sofa, and (Board of Health be damned) a roving bulldog named The Bruce. I liked it more when there wasn't anything specifically life-altering, just people living normal lives. They have a four-year old son whom they both adore. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her four–year–old son, George. This is the first book I've read by this author and I'm not sure if I'll try another. . I loved her previous novel, Three Junes, and The Whole World Over, was just as great. But the more I read, and as more and more peripheral characters got their own main story arcs or glommed onto those of the Duquette-Glaziers, th. The Whole World Over: A Novel - Kindle edition by Glass, Julia. An internationally known, award-winning journalist, producer and best-selling author, Arroyo is known for his penetrating interviews of leading news figures. Although some of the scenes were engaging and well-written, she really shows her northeast provincialism by painting characters from new Mexico as utter good-ol-boy stereotypes. Gems - Just Gems. Be the first to ask a question about The Whole World Over. I thought that the relationship between Greenie and her husband was interesting and several of the other characters in this book were really intriguing, especially Saga who is a survivor of a traumatic brain injury from a fluke accident. In the trash, fireplace or any similar place!! ― Julia Glass, The Whole World Over. In The Whole World Over she has given us another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary complexities of love. Highly recommended for all libraries. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts–heading west without her husband. What is she a doing of? Glass is talented at creating likable people facing identifiable crises: I went from story to story rooting for the people involved (main characters: Greenie the pastry chef, her depressed psychotherapist husband Alan whom. Glass has talent for explor. She had known this before they married, but she had assumed this aspect of his psyche would burn off, under the solar exposure of day-to-day affection, like cognac set aflame in a skillet. The characters in this book could have made up several more interesting novels rather than being all crammed into one. “With you, I can only imagine that some part of your waking soul just can’t bear to see another magnificent day in the life of Greenie Duquette come to an end.” “That’s very poetic,” said Greenie, “but it’s malarkey.” “When I’m with you,” he said, “I love not getting to sleep.” He kissed her and kissed her, and then they did fall asleep. The overlying dilemma, that much was clear. Are you the same person you were when you were 17? I was so frustrated that I finally stayed up most of one night just to immerse myself in this wonderful story about marriage, cooking and how we come to know ourselves. … Sometimes dog faces were the only ones she saw for hours. So please all you readers out there: stay away from this book..507 pages of my life that I can't get back! Of all the fine novels I have read that use this device,"The Whole World Over" was the first, and I doubt Glass ever gets credit for that. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It takes place in New York and New Mexico. They would talk about their days, their dreams (both sleeping and waking), their notions on the fate of mankind. It took me a long time to finish this book (2 times out of library). But I didn't realize how long it was when I began--I would have had to head for Timbuktu to get through it!--so why did I trade in the CDs for the book at the library? and the writing style is just plain stupid (for lack of a better term). Of all the fine novels I have read that use this device,"The Whole World Over" was the first, and I doubt Glass ever gets credit for that. by Pantheon. ♢ Writers the world over joined in protest against her imprisonment. So call me, you have to promise you’ll call me the minute you hear from the guy. ….uh huh…right.). Especially memorable is how the lives of these people (and others) weave together and how they cope with the 9/11 terrorist attack. Sometimes a nightmare is like a strong wind sweeping through a house.” Greenie had noticed early on that first thing every morning, often before getting out of bed, Alan wrote his dreams in a leather book the size of a wallet. (A bakery in the Village? About this Book. She raises a lot of interesting questions, but doesn't necessarily provide the answers. Book Reviewed by: BookBrowse Review Team Buy This Book. In the trash, fireplace or any similar place!! I loved the descriptions of food in this book as the main character is a successful pastry chef in New York. or words to that effect. If I weren’t hitched already, thought Greenie, I would gladly take rejection in exchange for a lovely silk dress. 9/11 has been so politicized in the years since it happened that it's easy to forget how that day felt. Greenie did not know what to do about this. But Alan still slept so lightly that he was nearly always the first to rise and comfort George when he cried. I have to admit I'm disappointed. Walter was the owner and gadabout host (not the chef; he couldn’t have washed a head of lettuce to save his life) of a retro-American tavern that served high-cholesterol, high-on-the-food-chain meals with patriarchal hubris. As if to confirm her fleeting disenchantment with all that stood for romantic love, she and Alan had had another of the fruitless, bitter face-offs Greenie could never seem to avoid—and which, in their small apartment, she feared would awaken and worry George. These lives, and others, are woven into the pages of this novel. To top it off, after creating a pile of characters who are uninteresting and dull, she tries to ratchet up the emotional involvement by tossing in Sept 11: "Oh gosh! Start by marking “The Whole World Over” as Want to Read: Error rating book. bleh. . Glass, as usual, seems insightful about straight women falling for gay men, but here she also looks at the men's own loneliness. Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2016. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Praise for The Whole World Over “In her second rich, subtle novel, Glass reveals how the past impinges on the present, and how small incidents of fate and chance determine the future . . As Greenie checked her e-mail at work that morning, a small pink box popped up on the screen: Carpe diem, ladies! Greenie is a woman a bit lost in her sedated marriage. While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Washington, injustice and … by Julia Glass ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 2006. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. None of the characters really know how they are supposed to act when situations come up that throw their lives into disarray. Greenie (Charlotte Greenway Duquette) is a pastry chef married to Alan, a failing psychotherapist, for 10 years. The only windows ran along the ceiling at sidewalk level: wide yet narrow, like gunports in a bunker. Not a good thing.” “Why? There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. everywhere in the world: People are the same the whole world over. Greenie is a woman a bit lost in her sedated marriage. Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2018. The narrator was not great at all. Alan’s only complaint was that waking up so often and so urgently made it hard for him to remember his dreams. Greenie (Charlotte Greenway Duquette) is a pastry chef married to Alan, a failing psychotherapist, for 10 years. The Whole World Over. Understand that China’s total GDP in 1980 was under $90 billion in current dollars. Started out liking this story of Greenwich Village baker Greenie Duquette and her depressed psychologist husband Alan Glazier and their 5 yr old son George, though I found it annoying that so many characters had multiple names and nicknames (Greenie is also Charlie and Charlotte, Charlie is also Other Charlie, Fenno is also Bonnie Prince Charlie, gah!). Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The intention behind this seemed to be to represent the intersect. "Three June" and "TheWorld Over". Gonna find the one I love. . But Glass is mostly examining the psychological behavior of her characters. Kind of like life in general. Just below the windows, Greenie had hung her copper and stainless-steel bowls, in pairs. 'The Whole World Over' By Julia Glass. It’s like grinding your spiritual teeth,” he said. Of all the fine novels I have read that use this device,"The Whole World Over" was the first, and I doubt Glass ever gets credit for that. i was just so utterly disinterested in the characters in this book and even less interested in what they were going to do next - probably nothing - oh, wait, maybe they'll mull and think and wring their hands and still do nothing or maybe they'll actually do something and.... still, nothing will happen as a result. I read Julia Glass. About The Whole World Over. Alan said that what she really feared was honestly growing up, taking her lifelong ambition and molding it into a Business with a capital B. Greenie resented his condescension; if Business with a capital B was the goal of growing up, what was he doing as a private psychotherapist working out of a back-door bedroom that should have belonged to George, who slept in an alcove off their living room meant for a dining room table? There's a scream, a splash, good 'eavens! Around the perimeter, the walls and cupboards were white, the countertops made of smooth, anonymous steel, but the linoleum tiles that Alan had helped her lay on the floor were gladiola red. May 23rd 2006 Her mother teased her that it wasn’t the first time, and Greenie said yes, this was true, but she had a hunch it would be the last. And then it was Tuesday. She does this throughout the book, and I wished I'd marked more of them - puts two simple words together which are so visual or conceptual within their brevity. Or even just limiting herself to TWO narrators. I hope so-and-so wasn't caught in the WTC!" Even toddlers were visible only up to the hems of their shorts or jackets. Sometimes, organizing bills or tinkering with recipes, Greenie sat on a stool at the butcher-block island and watched the ankles passing by these windows. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and other issues with a collection of cutting-edge essays on black women's internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond. To top it off, after creating a pile of characters who are uninteresting and dull, she tries to ratchet up the emotional involvement by tossing in Sept 11: "Oh gosh! . “What about me?” she said. Next year they would be married ten years, and it had not. Glass is talented at creating likable people facing identifiable crises: I went from story to story rooting for the people involved (main characters: Greenie the pastry chef, her depressed psychotherapist husband Alan whom she is debating leaving, her good friend Walter who owns a restaurant, the larger-than-life governor of New Mexico and -- from "Three Junes" -- bookstore owner Fenno McLeod, in a supporting role.) 0 likes. Her shadow, when she looked backwards, was long and elegant..." I have seen my own shadow like that and "elegant" is exactly the right word, but I never would have thought of it. And mad props to Glass, b/c it did not disappoint--even though it's mainly the story of a bunch of New Yorkers just before 9/11. Gonna take the one the I love. It is a bit annoying at points to switch between characters, a device I have never loved, but it kept me reading (and guessing!). Usually, I get so wrapped up in a story that I have to reach the end, or at the very least I push myself through, even though I might be struggling with a story. Could it lie dormant in George? Walter had also commissioned a deep-dish apple pie, a strawberry marble cheesecake, and a layer cake he asked her to create exclusively for him. I like the "real world" feel of this book. Like Greenie, he would be alert for another half hour or more. I am on page 393 of this 507-page book and the only reason I'm finishing it is because I kept reading, thinking maybe the story would go somewhere...where it should go?? Her social commentary is at once mischievous and trenchant.” —Chicago Tribune, “Enormously appealing and inventive . Alan is the character that I did not immediately relate to but began to understand as the story progressed. Less is more. Yet again it was sleeting. Through the past year, as Greenie began to turn away clients, Alan was losing them. He struggles in his search to find love. Except for the coconut cake (filled with Meyer lemon curd and glazed with brown sugar), most of the desserts she made for Walter were not her best or most original, but they were exemplars of their kind: portly, solid-citizen desserts, puddings of rice, bread, and noodles—sweets that the Pilgrims and other humble immigrants who had scraped together their prototypes would have bartered in a Mayflower minute for Greenie’s blood-orange mousse, pear ice cream, or tiny white-chocolate éclairs. Much of it just didn't hold my attention or interest. She hadn’t bothered to go to bed, since Tuesday was one of the days on which she rose before dawn to bake brioche, scones, cinnamon rolls, and—Tuesdays only—a coffee cake rich with cardamom, orange zest, and grated gingerroot: a cunningly savory sweet that left her work kitchen smelling like a fine Indian restaurant, a brief invigorating change from the happily married scents of butter, vanilla, and sugar (the fragrance, to Greenie, of ordinary life). It revolves mainly around four characters--Greenie, who is suddenly being wooed by the governor of New Mexico, who needs a personal chef; her husband, Alan, a failing shrink; her friend Walter, a flamboyant restaurateur who takes in his teenage nephew; I remember loving Glass' previous book, Three Junes, so was excited to finally get her newest novel from the library. I started reading it in the States at the very end of December and finished it in the middle of this month, gobbling up the last 250 pages or so all in one weekend. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. To me, the best characters in this whole book was Saga, a 30-something woman who lost her memory in an accident – she is also a rescuer of animals; and Saga's Uncle Marsden, a Yale ecologist who takes care of her. Oh for the quiet, sumptuous ease of a silk dress; oh for the weather in which to wear it! Governor Ray McCrae is a "big" character, perhaps overblown, but fun to imagine. Upping the. by Julia Glass. US poll chaos is a boon for the enemies of democracy the whole world over. The story was okay, but it just lacked the connection and magic of Three Junes. And mad props to Glass, b/c it did not disappoint--even though it's mainly the story of a bunch of New Yorkers just before 9/11. Please try your request again later. Julia Glass, the acclaimed author of Three Junes, talks with Lynn Neary about her new novel, The Whole World Over. None of the characters really know how they are supposed to act when situations come up that throw their lives into disarray. This was the most wonderful book. I may read it a third time. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. By itself, this creation doubled the amount of cocoa she ordered from her supplier every month. . “Delegation,” said Alan. I was also fascinated by my own yearnings for Greenie; I wasn't quite sure where I wanted her to end up or with whom and the answer wasn't a foregone conclusion. See also: over, world. The cultures of Manhattan and New Mexico, straight and gay relationships, parents and children, are sensitively explored in Glass’s replete successor to her NBA-winning debut novel, Three Junes (2002). She would know that spring had arrived when green crept into her rabbit’s-eye view, as the small plots of earth around the trees in front of the building filled with hardy weeds or the floral attempts of residents longing in vain for gardens of their own. I get that she was tryi. (The dogs were no help there.) Glass's long but always captivating tale is a quilt of many colors and motivations whose strongest threads are love of family and sense of self. This author now ranks at the top of my list! Greenie felt as if it had been sleeting for a week. After I read Three Junes, I was really looking forward to another book by Glass. I hope so-and-so wasn't caught in the WTC!" After it was on his menu for a week, Walter bet her a lobster dinner that before a year was out, Gourmet would request the recipe, putting both of them on a wider culinary map. Analyzing the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars examine the range and … In The Whole World Over she has given us another tale that pays tribute to the extraordinary complexities of love. Taking place a year and half before 9/11, Glass weaves together a tale about Greenie and Alan, a couple with one son, whose marriage is on the rocks; Walter, a sassy gay restaurateur and Greenie's best friend; and Saga, a drifting woman who loves animals and has suffered from a terrible accident. Here is an excerpt from the book (not representative of the plot but rather her style) that I have read over and over again, risking a library fine: My friend Kelly said she liked the "real world" feel of this book, and I agree. Greenie wasn’t wild about the Eisenhower-era foods with which Walter indulged his customers—indulgence, she felt, was the province of dessert—but she had been pleased when she won the account. The sidewalks of Bank Street, tricky enough in their skewed antiquity, were now glazed with ice, so that walking George to school had become a chore of matronly scolding and pleading: “Walk, honey. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It was a minor joke she still enjoyed: displayed this way, they looked like pairs of great armored breasts, the warrior bosoms of Amazons, of Athena, Brunhilde, and Joan of Arc. They draw you in that way. A story that begins in Greenwich Village. It was the sort of dessert that appalled Greenie on principle, but it also embodied a kind of uberprosperity, a transgressive joy, flaunting the potential heft of butter, that Protean substance as wondrous and essential to a pastry chef as fire had been to early man. Walter, my favorite of the characters, is candid and quirky and someone I knew I could be friends with. Her shadow, when she looked backwards, was long and elegant..." I have seen my own shadow like that and "elegant" is exactly the right word, but I never would have thought of it. Started out liking this story of Greenwich Village baker Greenie Duquette and her depressed psychologist husband Alan Glazier and their 5 yr old son George, though I found it annoying that so many characters had multiple names and nicknames (Greenie is also Charlie and Charlotte, Charlie is also Other Charlie, Fenno is also Bonnie Prince Charlie, gah!). Saga is a sweet and naive character that needs to find he. However, on a re-read, I am feeling slightly bored. At Walter’s restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie’s coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Whole World Over: A Novel. Has parenthood? Over the past few years, she had come to think of Walter as an ally more than a client. On one table stood galvanized buckets of the year's final roses; on another, skeins of yarn in muted, soulful purples and reds. Fenno McLeod, the center of the triptych of "Three Junes," appears throughout this n. Julia Glass' book "The Whole World Over" celebrates/honors relationships with family and friends in age of post 9/11. Welcome back. A novel by the author of "Three Junes," and for which I traded a Vanity Fair and "The Stone Diaries" so I'd have it for plane reading back from the Congo. The plot follows separate characters whose lives converge on a few blocks of central Manhattan, and the climax occurs on 9-11, while tragedy unfolds nearby. Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2008. Please try again. She would have attacked the problem head on if the sufferer had been one of her girlfriends, but Alan was a man, chronically resentful of direction. Like “How odd it felt to share a kitchen most mornings with a man whose face she had seen in the news, without caring, for years. The Whole World Over by Konstantin Simonov. As with "Three Junes," Julia Glass has created a story of interlocking characters all pursuing happiness as best they can. Though I’ve just now realized that he may spirit you away! In observing her husband and comparing him to her lover: I lost interest about half way through the book. When they had been sleeping together—or not-sleeping together—nearly every night for a month, she asked, “Why do you suppose we’re like this? What, in Walter’s cozy world, constituted a VIP? I'm really glad I didn't read the jacket of this book before reading the book itself, because I wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much if I'd known going in that the narrative would culminate on September 11, 2001. Now Greenie wondered if Alan had needed it more than she understood. Those facts were enough to get me interested, and my first taste of Julia Glass’s fiction did not disappoint. She had made this place—an old boiler room in the basement of a nondescript tenement building—into her private kingdom. 6/6/2013: I don't know why I plowed all the way through this novel. When he was with friends, his argumentative nature was his strength, a way of challenging the world and its complacencies, but in private—alone with Greenie—he fell prey to defensiveness and nocturnal nihilism. Saga is a sweet and naive character that needs to find her strength. In those early months, starved of sleep, their thinking selves would plummet toward oblivion once they lay down. The characters in this novel will stick in your imagination. I found the multiple narratives distracting and not particularly well done (I felt like the characters got unequal amounts of narration, but this might just be my perception because some were much more interesting to me than others) or illuminating. what a disappointing read by the author of Three Junes, a book I very much loved! Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. She had a diligent assistant and an intern who shopped, cleaned up, made deliveries, and showed up on time. Despite her initial hesitancy, she does end up spending the day with him showing him around the city. Walter loved this part of the season- and not just because it was the time of year his restaurant flourished, when people felt the first yearnings to sit by a fire, to eat stew and bread pudding and meatloaf, drink cider and toddies and cocoa. 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