Songeuse, Tommy arpente la vaste maison du Connecticut qui désormais lui appartient. Pendant vingt-cinq ans, elle l'a partagée avec Morty, son employeur et ami, célèbre auteur de livres pour enfants. Après la mort soudaine de l'artiste, la voilà héritière de tous ses biens avec la lourde responsabi...
Kit Noonan est un historien de l'art au chômage avec des soucis d'argent. Son épouse Sandra, exaspérée, le convainc que pour prendre un nouveau départ, il doit trouver la réponse à une question essentielle : qui est son véritable père ? Sa mère refusant tout net d'aborder le sujet, Kit part à la rec...
A la mort de sa femme, Paul entreprend un voyage en Grèce et, là-bas, il s'éprend d'une jeune artiste peintre. Son fils aîné, Fenno, a fui l'Ecosse pour New York où il tient une librairie. Fenno noue une amitié particulière avec son voisin, Mal, critique musical, gay atteint du sida. ...
Percy, 70 ans, vit près de Boston. Sa retraite est une paisible routine jusqu'à ce qu'une école maternelle s'installe dans sa grange. Elèves, parents et professeurs remettent en question sa vie solitaire. Alors qu'auparavant il ne recevait la visite que de son petit-fils Robert, il rencontre Ira, l'...
« Puissant, complexe et bouleversant ! » --The New York Times Book Review ...
Pâtissière à Greenwich Village, Greenie se consacre tout entière à son jeune fils et à son métier, tandis que son mari plonge dans la mélancolie. Lorsque le truculent gouverneur du Nouveau-Mexique, conquis par un gâteau à la noix de coco, lui propose de devenir chef cuisinière de sa résidence, elle ...
Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart Louisa is the elder one, the conscientious student, precise and careful, who yearns for a good marriage, a career, a family. Clem, the archetypal younger sibling, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed t...
In this captivating debut novel, Julia Glass depicts the life and loves of the McLeod family during three crucial summers spanning a decade. Paul McLeod, patriarch of a Scottish family and a retired newspaper editor and proprietor, is on a package tour of Greece after the death of his wife. The stor...
Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her four-year-old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. It is at Walter's restaurant that the ...
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death. ...
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In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant--a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an une...
Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her energy on her Greenwich Village bakery. It is at Walter's restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico wooes her away from the city to be his chef. This work is a human tale of longing and loss, folly and forgiveness, revealing the subtle mechanisms behin...
Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart. Louisa settles in New York while Clem, a wildlife biologist, moves restlessly about until she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex bond, Louisa observes, is 'like a double helix, two souls coiling around a comm...