Upfronts:Quartet for the End of Time

By Johanna Skibsrud

Quartet for the End of Time follows the lives of Arthur and Douglas Sinclair—a World War I veteran and his son—and Alden and Sutton Kelly—the children of a powerful U.S. congressman—after their fates powerfully and irrevocably intersect during the Bonus Army Riots of 1932 in Washington, D.C.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Release date: Mar 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9780143192428

Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud is a Canadian-American writer, whose debut novel, The Sentimentalists, was awarded the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, making her the youngest writer to ever win Canada’s most prestigious literary prize. She is the author of two novels, two collection of short fiction, three collections of poetry, and the co-author of a children's book, Sometimes We Think You are a Monkey -- proceeds of which are being donated to the Himalayan School Project. She received her BA in English Literature at the University of Toronto, her MA in English and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, and her PhD in English Literature at the Université de Montréal.

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QUARTET FOR

THE END OF TIME

Johanna Skibsrud

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[faradaydon_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Dense beyond understanding. And please, delete the dash from the author's keyboard before she writes again.