
The Whole World Over
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Narrated by:
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Denis O'Hare
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By:
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Julia Glass
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.
©2006 Julia Glass (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"Glass brings the same assured narrative drive and engaging prose to this exploration of the quest for love and its tests: absence, doubt, infidelity, guilt, and loss." (Publishers Weekly)
"Glass deftly explor[es] the sacrifices, compromises, and leaps of faith that accompany love." (Booklist)
Not as good as Junes
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It was fun to be in Ivy's crazy world for a very brief time. It's good.
A Fun One
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Would you try another book from Julia Glass and/or Denis O'Hare?
I have enjoyedWhat was one of the most memorable moments of The Whole World Over?
Probably when the family reunites in Maine after 9/11.Which character ??? as performed by Denis O'Hare ??? was your favorite?
Ray was certainly colorful.Could you see The Whole World Over being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
I could see a movie perhaps with Julianna Moore.Any additional comments?
Did not like the flow of the abridgement. Will be more careful in my selection of abridged versions.Loved the characters
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Delightful Story
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