Summary
A rich and devastating tale of two sisters. Together and apart, their alternating voices tell of their lives over a 25 year period.
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 to her work but not to the men who fall for her.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099502937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099502933 |
| Author: | Julia Glass |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 211g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
The best novels entrance us by showing what is missed in life as much as by what’s discovered; this is one.
The best novels entrance us by showing what is missed in life as much as by what’s discovered; this is one. * Daily Telegraph *
Rich, intricate and alive with emotion … Glass has used the edges and color blocks of her own life to build an honest portrait of sister-love and sister-hate * New York Times Book Review *
Louisa and Clem, the sisters at the very centre of this wonderfully vivid, truthful novel, are (as Louisa puts it) “not exactly soul mates. Historically we’re kind of like England and France”… [a] quarter century of their lives unfolds, switching between their two voices, kept beautifully distinct by Glass. * The Times *
The beauty of this story lies in its rich detail and the descriptions of the emotions and events that have shaped the sisters’ complex relationship. A riveting and intricate read. * Candis *
[A] promising extension of Glass’s already impressive range * Kirkus Reviews *
An engaging and intelligent page-turner * Publishers Weekly *
Glass is a wisely questioning, ardent, and artful novelist * Booklist *
Nowhere are the ebbs and flows, the complex and often ugly nuances, the bonds and breaks between sisters more achingly or more piercingly explored. * USA Today *
One doesn’t read so much as sink into a Julia Glass novel, lulled into an escapist reverie by her mastery … * People Magazine *
A sometimes stinging, always affecting tale of siblings who can’t quite make it as friends * Marie Claire *
About The Author
Julia Glass
Julia Glass was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her short stories have been honoured with three Nelson Algren Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award. Her first novel, Three Junes, won the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction. Until recently a longtime New Yorker, she now lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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