Tag Archives: Julia Glass

Julia Glass, “The Widower’s Tale”

Posted on September 20, 2010 by carolwallace

Near the end of The Widower’s Tale, in a segment narrated by the widower of the title, he says, “I have always been an avid and fairly ecumenical reader of fiction: I relish the pretend, the invented, the convincingly contrived.” … Continue reading →

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Katharine Davis, “A Slender Thread”

Posted on September 11, 2010 by carolwallace

It’s a pretty good recipe for a novel: take a group of attractive characters, subject them to a new kind of pressure, and see what happens. Joanna Trollope has been writing versions of this book for years, and Julia Glass … Continue reading →

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Peter Cameron, “The City of Your Final Destination”

Posted on June 9, 2010 by carolwallace

The City of Your Final Destination arrived in the mail, sent by a friend with impeccable taste, and it proved to be very enjoyable. The title sounds ominous, doesn’t it? I suppose it relates in a free-floating way to the … Continue reading →

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Julia Glass, “I See You Everywhere”

Posted on December 18, 2009 by carolwallace

I really like Julia Glass. I was blown away by Three Junes and though her second book, The Whole World Over, felt like an anti-climax, it was still prodigiously readable. I See You Everywhere falls somewhere between those two novels … Continue reading →

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