“Until then I had only felt them as sad melodies I couldn’t hum along to. ... It set me wondering about my life and how I didn’t know what it had possibly added up to, starting with that view out the chicken barn’s window right up to now looking out at my crabapple tree with its tight little buds not yet opening.”
Four Last Songs
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About the Author
Jonathan Strong is the author of seventeen novels including, most recently Quit the Race (Pressed Wafer 2017). His first story was published in the Partisan Review in 1966 and his first collection, Tike and Five Stories (reissued as The Haunts of His Youth) won the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1969. Subsequent works were brought out by Ballantine Books, Zoland Books, and Quale Press (most recently The Judge’s House in 2015). He lives in Rockport, Massachusetts, and Corinth, Vermont.
