Four Last Songs

Overview

In this quiet, late novella by Jonathan Strong, the novelist once known as the voice of Sixties youth looks back--but mostly forward--to reflect on the meaning of the time and its inevitable passing. Four Last Songs is a novel of growth and age--and permanence.

Author Biography

Jonathan Strong is the author of seventeen novels including Quit the Race (Pressed Wafer, 2017), and, most recently Four Last Songs (Grid Books, 2020). His first story was published in the Partisan Review in 1966 and his first collection, Tike and Five Stories 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. He lives in Rockport, Massachusetts, and Corinth, Vermont.