A house among the trees

Resource Information

The work A house among the trees represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A house among the trees

Statement of responsibility

Julia Glass

Title variation

House among the trees

Title variation remainder

a novel

Creator

• Glass, Julia, 1956-

Author

• Glass, Julia, 1956-

Subject

• Fiction
• Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
• Large type books
• Artists -- Fiction
• Self-realization -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Large type books
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant?a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of an unexpected legacy. When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty's last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people, including Dani Daulair, her estranged brother; Meredith Galarza, the lonely, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie. When the actor arrives for the visit he had previously arranged with the man he is to portray, he and Tommy are compelled to look more closely at Morty's past and the consequences of the choices they now face, both separately and together. Morty, as it turns out, made a confession to Greene that undermines much of what Tommy believed she knew about her boss?and about herself. As she contemplates a future without him, her unlikely alliance with Greene?and the loyalty they share toward the man whose legacy they hold in their hands?will lead to surprising upheavals in their wider relationships, their careers, and even their search for love."--

Assigning source

Provided by the publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3607.L37

LC item number

H68 2016

Literary form

fiction