The Whole World Over

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition:

Description: 560 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Julia Glass, author of the award-winning novel Three Junes, tells a vivid tale of longing and loss, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important connections to others. In The Whole World Over, she pays tribute once again to the extraordinary complexities of love.Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walters restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenies coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts“heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision, along with events beyond Greenies control, will change the course of several lives around her.

ISBN: 9781400075768