I See You Everywhere

I See You Everywhere

by JuliaGlass (Author)

Synopsis

Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart. Louisa Jardine is the elder one, the conscientious student, precise and careful, who yearns for a good marriage, a career in the arts, 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. Alternating between their voices, I See You Everywhere opens when the sisters are in their early twenties, still in the throes of mutual teenage wariness, and unfolds through their lives in a vivid, heart-rending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love.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 common axis, joined yet never touching'. Alive with the same sensual detail and riveting characterization that marks Julia Glass' previous novels, I See You Everywhere is a powerful and moving double portrait that reveals the very nature of sisterhood.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 05 Feb 2009

ISBN 10: 0091796989
ISBN 13: 9780091796983
Book Overview: The new book from the author of the National Book Award-winning Three Junes is a rich and devastating tale of two sisters. Together and apart, their alternating voices tell of their lives over a 25 year period.

Media Reviews
Praise for The Whole World Over [Glass's] second novel is even finer than her first . . . [Her] characters are enticingly complex, their predicaments are provocative and significant . . . Her love for animals, feel for landscape, and ardor for language itself feed the freshness, sensuousness, and compassion that make this such a nourishing and pleasurable read. - Chicago Tribune Beautiful and satisfying, chock-full of the gorgeous, heartbreaking stuff that makes life worth living. - Rocky Mountain News Gorgeous . . . [A] delicious, delightful, and deeply satisfying tale of domestic choices . . . Glass never shies away from complexity. -New Orleans Times-Picayune Praise for Three Junes Enormously accomplished . . .Rich, absorbing, and full of life. -- The New Yorker A warm, wise debut . . . Three Junes marks a blessed event for readers of literary fiction everywhere. -- San Francisco Chronicle Three Junes brilliantly rescues, then refurbishes, the traditional plot-driven novel . . . Glass has written a generous book about family expectations--but also about happiness. -- The New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition.
Author Bio
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.