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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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An outstanding book about what is means to be family.......2007-09-30
I've given a lot of thought to why Julia Glass' second novel, "The Whole World Over," has received so many lackluster reviews by avid fans of the author's first novel. Obviously, fans of "Three Junes" were looking forward to another novel much like the first. They wanted another detailed character study. They wanted to get to know another character as intimately as Fenno McCloud, the much-loved main character at the center of "Three Junes." What they got instead, was something entirely different.
"The Whole World Over" is a study about family. The novel has a wide assortment of main characters, each belonging to ever-widening and intersecting circles of family connections. The author deftly sculpts each character--but none have that breath of life that Glass was able to achieve with Fenno McCloud. How could she? There are just too many characters...and after all, that is not the purpose of this novel.
In this work, Glass delves deeply into the timeless question: "What does it take to make, or break, a family?" She gives us many families: a traditional family on the brink of a break-up; a hodge-podge family of friends, associates, and workers centered around a charismatic bachelor governor; a newly formed fragile group of three testing the possibilities of becoming a family; a father with one son, dealing with the possibility that he may have fathered another child who is totally unaware of his existence; a family that is shattered by how they deal with a mentally declining patriarch and a neurologically damaged cousin; and many more. Glass takes us on a journey through these families. You won't like all these characters, or their families, but each is fascinating and fundamentally unique. Each give us a view of family reality from another perspective.
In this book, not all the families have bonds of blood, and some of the people tied together by blood do not turn out to be real families at all. At the end of this novel, no one character, or one family, will stand out in your mind. Instead, you will be left with the author's all-important message seared into your heart: to make a family, all it takes is commitment and unconditional love. Without these, a family will shatter...or slowly dissolve.
And, by the way, Fenno McCloud and his New York friends make a heart-warming appearance in this novel...and yes, they are most certainly one of the good and healthy examples of families that populate this remarkable book.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it highly. It may not be as magnificent a novel as "Three Junes," but it is still a powerfully-crafted and artful work of prose with an all-important message.
Great Characters, But a Bit Hard to Follow: Best Listened To.......2007-09-08
This being my first experience with Glass, I'm glad I didn't pick up the book in the library instead of grabbing the CD off the shelf, (based solely on its colorful cover). Otherwise, I know I would've never finished reading the book.
I enjoyed all the characters and their lives. Hearing the reader's various characters' voices on the CD brought them more to life for me than reading the book would have. I found Greenie to be sort of a dingaling, spoiled brat, and Alan, by nature, a grump who needed a career change. As much as I disliked Greenie, I never blamed her for leaving or having her fling. She simply did what many women yearn to do, but don't. I wish she would've stayed with Charlie and ditched Alan. George? Well, he's young. There's hope.
I especially enjoyed every aspect of Walter and find myself, occasionally, wondering how he and his Scottish beau are getting along, especially when I walk into a book store or nice restaurant. I hope Walter's new restaurant does well. And, I would suspect Greenie and Alan finally split. Often, when I walk under windy trees or see a litter of puppies, I think of Saga and speculate on how she and her uncle might be fairing in their new home.
Isn't that what an author wishes their book to do, no matter how it's written? So, overall, kudos to Glass. While giving a warning to others about its, often, difficult-to-follow flow, I recommend this book -- on CD.
As a writer myself, I'm, not surprisingly, a ferocious reader. I found this book to be an example of how to develop characters, but not how to write an easy to read novel. I agree with several of the comments in these reviews. It, definitely, jumped all over the place and was sometimes confusing. But, then again, perhaps the way it was written may have been purposeful, to represent...life.
My advice: Listen to the CD, don't read the book.
Captivating and memorable!.......2007-09-07
I was a huge fan of Three Junes and looked forward to this book. I was not disappointed. I don't like to compare - each book stands on it's own. Her characters are so engaging, her prose connects you with these people, you become a member of their community. Even if you don't like the character, you still want to know where they end up and why. There are a few loose ends that go nowhere but that is a minor criticism. Ms. Glass writes with wit, emotion, and the right amount of detail. And the cooking/food descriptions - I was hungry the entire time! Don't read this book if you are on a diet - but that would be the only reason NOT to read this book.
Much reading enjoyment within the pages.......2007-09-06
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Greenie Duquette is the wife of a New York City psychiatrist, the mother of a four-year-old son, and perhaps most importantly, the owner of Pastries by Miss Duquette and its pastry chef extraordinaire. Her business is doing well, her son enjoys pre-school and while she and her husband have their disagreements, things are generally fine. Until that is, her chief client and friend, the owner of Walter's Place, suggested to the governor of New Mexico that Greenie might just be the chef he needs at his Santa Fe governor's residence. Flattered by the governor's offer, Greenie decides to try it out for a few months. Although her husband is unable to leave his patients immediately, Greenie packs herself and her son and moves to New Mexico.
This is just the opening to Julia Glass's second novel. Glass takes the reader back and forth from the busy streets of Manhattan to the political world of the New Mexico governor's mansion and the wide-open spaces of his working ranch. In each of the settings, she peoples the book with interesting characters that are occasionally interconnected. For example, Greenie's friend Walter decides to let his nephew stay with him for the summer. The nephew meets the girl who walks his uncle's dog. She also works with a volunteer animal rescue group. In the same time frame, Greenie's husband happens to meet a disoriented young woman who also volunteers for the animal group. These two young women have only a passing knowledge of each other, yet the reader begins to sense connections between unrelated individuals.
The novel covers a relatively short time period--a little over a year, but the characters go through a variety of upheavals in their relationships. Old friends rediscover each other and new friendships develop. Some relationships fall apart while others are cemented together.
All in all, the book is immensely satisfying, particularly in its character development. I found only one thing disconcerting: a sudden shift to present tense near the end of the book. This, however, was not enough to prevent me from highly recommending the book.
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Wholely underwhelmed.......2007-08-26
This is the first book I've read written by Julia Glass and although based on the reviews here I would normally be tempted to pick up her other book, I certainly wouldn't based on my experience with this book.
I did finish the book -- I was on vacation and it was the book I brought -- and I kept waiting for it to sweep me up, but it never did. Although I thought the writing was well done and most of the characters I found interesting, I never really bonded with any of them. I can always tell if I've found a good book if I want the story to continue or miss the characters by the time I've finished it. But when I finished this book I really had no desire to ever meet these characters again, except perhaps Walter who I found to be the most sympathetic and well-drawn.
My main objection to this book is that I was insulted by the not so subtle bashing of anyone to the Right of San Francisco both in terms of the characters in the book (Both Werner and the Governer are complete caricatures)and the narrative voice which wreaks of the same holier than thou liberalism that might be typical of some of our less-informed movie stars. This is obviously a talented writer. But she needs to stick to micro-topics. Macro is really out of her league and just makes her seem silly.
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Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, Spring Came on Forever, a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head.
The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man.
Quickly paced and precisely drawn, this novel is Aldrich's greatest tribute to the complexity, humor, endurance, and intelligence of the people who settled the prairie. Whatever its sentiments, it has as many cutting edges as a buzz saw.
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the sweetest, and yet the saddest.......2003-10-16
I could've cried over this book. What teen girl who loves heartbreakers wouldn't?(besides me? i've only cried over one book but shhh. don't tell. this book should be cried over). Aldrich wrote this book to touch hearts, I can see that already! This book was so sweet, and through it all, I just wanted to cry thinking how Mathias and Amalia were able to put their short, yet sweet romance behind them. Anyway, Mathias was working in the shop one day, when his future "kliene taub,"(little dove) walks in. Her name is Amalia, and she is the most beautiful thing that Mathias had ever seen. Instantly, the two are in love. Mathias calls on her every Sunday after that, even after he discovers that Amalia is unhappily betrothed to someone else. Well, just when they descide to tell her father, Amalia's Luthren family takes her west, leaving Mathias in Illinois. The two are heartsick with their broken romance. Mathias goes west after her, but comes too late, for she is already wed, and he doesn't even know where she is. But, just because the romance is broken, doesn't mean the love is. The two go on loving each other throughout the rest of their lives, even though they haven't seen eachother since those earlier days, and even though they find others to love along the ways. This was a truly sweet story, and beautifully written.
An interesting tale of early settlements in Nebraska.......2003-07-23
I have just re-read "A Lantern in Her Hand" and wanted to read more by this author.
This is a wonderful story of how the Middle West was settled with hope, dreams and a lot of hard work. I think feminists should read this book to see how real women worked in the settlements of the Plains states. There were many hardships, but they kept going.
My great-grandparents lived at approximately this time and homesteaded in Iowa. It was like reading their story.
I especially enjoyed the stories of the different families and how they did during the generations. The ending was nice altho it was disappointing that Amalia's and Matthias's moment passed by.
My life has been long and wondrous but I recall this book........1999-08-11
A heavy reader, I have excellent recall but there is one book I read in my teens which I have always looked for and could not find. I am happy to be able to order it here.
It is a story of simple young love which is thwarted by a number of societal rules...and as we watch the two parallel lives unfold, we are startled, near the end, to watch them pass one another again...our emotions never recover. That is why I must read it again as I ender old age myself.
Wonderful Discovery.......1999-06-13
This book is a delightful and enchanting story
Charming, at once heartbreaking and heartwarming portrait.......1998-04-20
I first read this book as an almost high school freshman; it stayed with me through the years and I had to 'find' it again through the same library almost 30 years later. The story has not lost any of its power and charm; the love and constancy of Amalia and Matthew for each other, and their ability to carry on despite separation, hardship and heartbreak is still a strong story. The story is a thorough, clear picture of the life of a settler, when what we now call the midwest was wilderness. Duty, the greater good of the community, just getting to the end of the day/planting season/year was an accomplishment. To do this well, with honor and simple love, carries the lead characters through. When they separate, in spite of all their intentions to stay together, your heart almost breaks, yet cheers for them as they continue. When they are 'almost' brought back together, I smiled at the irony and justice of this beautiful example of the full 'circle of life.'
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Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe is a soothsaying jaunt into the not-so-distant future, where 24/7 communication and chatroom alliances have evolved into tribal networks that secretly work against each other in shadowy online realms. The novel opens with its protagonist, the peevish Art Berry, on the roof of an asylum. He wonders if it's better to be smart or happy. His crucible is a pencil up the nose for a possible "homebrew lobotomy." To explain Art's predicament, Doctorow flashes backward and slowly fills in the blanks. As a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, Art is one of many in the now truly global village who have banded together out of like-minded affinity for a particular time zone and its circadian cycles. Art may have grown up in Toronto but his real homeland is an online grouping that prefers bagels and hot dogs to the fish and chips of their rivals who live on Greenwich Mean Time. As he rises through the ranks of the tribe, he is sent abroad to sabotage the traffic patterns and communication networks in the GMT tribe. Along the way, he comes across a humdinger of an idea that will solve a music piracy problem on the highways of his own beloved timezone, raise his status in the tribe and make him rich. If only he could have trusted his tightly wound girlfriend and fellow tribal saboteur, he probably wouldn't be on the booby hatch roof with that pencil up his nose.
As a musing on the future, Doctorow's extrapolation seems entirely plausible. And, not only is EST a fascinating mental leap it's a witty and savvy tale that will appeal to anyone who's lived another life, however briefly, online. --Jeremy Pugh
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A powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own life rt is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, co-operating, conspiring to help each other out, coordinated by a loose network of encrypted instant messag-ing, secret protocols, and a love of Manhattan-style bagels. Or perhaps not. Art is, after all, in the nut-house. He was put there by a cabal of his friends and loved ones, fellow travelers from EST hidden in the bowels of Greenwich Mean Time, masquerading as management consultants who strive to wire Europe in oatmeal-thick bureaucracy. Scathing, bitter and funny, Eastern Standard Tribe examines the immutable truths of time, of sunrise and sunset, and of societies rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication.
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Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A couple of interesting ideas, here, but old girlfriends are best quickly ignored and forgotten, not written about, at length. :) Or at least, perhaps not to the point of being so obvious about it, and beating your readers over the head. However, some of the things his tribal consultant was talking about certainly seem to be happening. Sharing music between mp3 players, and that sort of thing. Doctorow is worth reading just for the futurology.
A quick, light, decent read.......2006-07-16
OK, prior reviews get some parts right, some parts wrong, and miss a few things.
They're right in saying it feels like the book is somehow missing something. Honestly, I'm not sure what it is, and I don't feel like spending a lot of time thinking it through to figure it out- but I have this nagging feeling the book didn't touch second base or something, so should be considered solid hit. But not a home run.
I really did get a kick out of one little bit of Art's character: he was "born to argue". Now toss in the fact that he lives a fair chunk his life in online chatrooms, and it definitely feels like something's starting to jell. Mr. Doctorow has tapped a strong current of the online world - the folks who rise above the standard troll and become sort of online unofficial litigators of RightThink. Well done Mr. Doctorow! Kudos on the chat scenes as well: they look like they were lifted right out of IRC.
There's another little bit of Art's character that's maybe just a little underplayed: he might actually be a little bit bonkers. Occasional references to hamsters running around in Art's brain, the serious beating he gives his business partner, his dilemna with the pencil. Hmmm!
OK. So ... add it up and you've got a month of so of Art's life, a partnership gone bad, a couple of decent techie rants (chapters 13 & 14),the fun question of whether or not you're actually paranoid when they really are out to get you, and some interesting spin on how a few of today's tech trends may play out in the near future. All in all, a good read but not a great one, and I thank Mr. Doctorow for the entertainment.
But I do have one note for you, if you're reading this Cory: with this and Down and Out, you've been to the Manic Protagonist well in two out of two novels. Might be time to find a new character hook?
Fun ideas, but not fleshed out.......2005-08-06
Art Berry lives in a world just slightly askew from the rest of us. In our increasingly wireless world of instant and constant communication, he gives his loyalty not to a state or a company or family and friends he sees regularly, but to the Eastern Standard Tribe-a largely faceless collection of people whose home time zone is the Eastern Standard Zone, who are locked in cutthroat competition with other tribes aligned with other time zones. Art himself is currently working in London, engaged in industrial sabotage against the Greenwich Mean Tribe. Virgn/Deutsche Telekom thinks he's working for them, improving their user interface; in fact he's trying to make it almost unusable. He's got a partner and supervisor from the Tribe, Federico, and a new girlfriend, Linda, whom he met when she staged an accident with him as the fall guy so that she could claim the insurance.
For some reason, that doesn't suggest to Art that perhaps Linda is fundamentally untrustworthy and not looking out for his best interests.
Art's having fun, screwing with V/DT's user interface, dreaming up a really good, fun, and profitable idea for EST to sell to MassPike, involving rights management for downloaded music. There are frustrations, too, of course, as he begins to dimly realize that Fede might be double-crossing him, trying to steal his idea and cut him out of the deal. There are more frustrations as Linda and Fede make increasingly contradictory and irreconcilable demands on him. Eventually, on a trip which he thinks is to pitch the idea, and a side trip home to Toronto to introduce Linda to his Gran, Art finally figures out that Linda is not his friend, either. He reacts very badly, and winds up on the roof of a mental institution in Massachusetts, trying to decide whether to stick a pencil into his brain.
There are some neat ideas here, and the story moves along briskly, alternating between the main story and Art on top of the asylum, trying to figure out what he does next, with quite adequate amounts of suspense. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite satisfy. Except for Art, neither the characters nor the book's main conceit, the Tribes, feel fully developed. I was left feeling that this will probably be a fun book to read when Doctorow finisihes writing it.
fast-paced, light, leaves you wanting more.......2005-04-17
The book is the story of Art, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe living and working in London for Virgin/Deutsche Telekom, where he designs user interfaces for new products. The book jumps back and forth between two timelines, a later one where Art is atop a mental institution to which he's been committed, and an earlier one where he's found a new girlfriend, Linda, after hitting her with his car. The book progresses quickly until the timelines meet and everything is wrapped up.
It's a very quick read, and I agree with reviewers who found it to be too short and superficial. But despite its lightness, it is an extremely entertaining book, and contains numerous interesting ideas which are worthy of fuller development in both reality and fiction.
Too much hype spoils the reading.......2005-01-21
Believe me, I love Cory Doctorow. I follow his blog, get his newsletter, and have read very good short stories written by him. That's why I expected more from this novel.
Its strong points are the ideas: the concept of Tribe, the focus on User Interface, the ubiquity of the comm, the use of language. But it has weak points, and the main one is the plot, which is quite conventional, using plot devices straight out of Creative Writing 101: starting 'in media res', 'deus ex machina' for solving the 'someone flew over the cuckoo's nest'/'catch 22' problem, overheard conversations, dialogue for background...
However, I think this book is a promising second book of somebody that, in the future, will become an excellent writer. Maybe it's worth reading just for the 'I discovered him first' value.
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