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By Julia Glass – Pantheon, 2010<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fans of National Book Award winner Julia Glass know how richly drawn and complex her characters can be. The Widower’s Tale<\/i> weaves together the lives of the family and acquaintances of widower Percival Darling, a 70-something retired librarian. Percy is erudite and cynical. At his core, he is a family man with compassion for his motherless adult daughters and his beloved grandson, all with dramas of their own. Thirty years after his wife’s drowning, Percy falls for a single mother and her adopted son. Subplots of eco-terrorism, cancer, class, immigration and gay marriage are pulled together to a satisfying conclusion. In creating a septuagenarian who emails and swims in the nude, Glass avoids the obvious stereotypes and has created a very memorable and attractive patriarch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Book Award winner Julia Glass weaves together the lives of the family and acquaintances of widower Percival Darling, a 70-something retired librarian.<\/p>\n

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