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0393073734 (ISBN13: 9780393073737)

Quartet for the End of Time Hardcover | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	Quartet for the End of Time
Author	:	Johanna Skibsrud
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2014 by W. W. Norton Company (first published September 4th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Music. Literature

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Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The novel takes us on an unforgettable journey beginning during the 1930s Bonus Army riots, when World War I veteran Arthur Sinclair is falsely accused of conspiracy and then disappears. His absence will haunt his son, Douglas, as well as Alden and Sutton Kelly, the children of a powerful U.S. congressman, as they experience—each in different ways—the dynamic political social changes that took place leading up to and during World War II.
From the New Deal projects through which Douglas, newly fatherless, makes his living to Sutton’s work as a journalist, to Alden’s life as a code breaker and a spy, each character is haunted by the past and is searching for love, hope, and redemption in a world torn apart by chaos and war. Through the lives of these characters, as well as those of their lovers, friends, and enemies, the novel transports us from the Siberian Expedition of World War I to the underground world of a Soviet spy in the 1920s and 1930s, to the occultist circle of P. D. Ouspensky and London during the Blitz, to the German prison camp where Messiaen originally composed and performed his famous Quartet for the End of Time.


At every turn, this rich and ambitious novel tells some of the less well-known stories of twentieth-century history with epic scope and astonishing power, revealing at every turn the ways in which history and memory tend to follow us, and in which absence has a palpable presence.

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I wanted to like this book. Instead, I found it hard to get through. The premise was very intriguing -- four characters at a critical point in U.S. history, juxtaposed with an important work of 20th century music. I think what curbed my enthusiasm was the female protagonist's given name, Sutton. How likely would it be that a woman in the early 20th century would have a male surname for a first name? The storyline I found most interesting was that of Daniel and his father who participated in the

I'm so stoked! I entered to win an ARC and I actually won!! It arrived the day before yesterday and I couldn't be more thrilled, it's a beautiful book, and I really can't wait to get started!!

I tried to read this book twice and honestly couldn't manage to finish it. The setting was what caused me to pick it up and the award-winning author as well, but the writing hit me as extremely wooden and I couldn't manage to relate to a single character. They just weren't developed enough for me. On my first attempt at reading this, I made it to page 54, still not having a clue as to what any of the characters looked like or their ages or what they were really about. The main event of the

Quartet for the End of Time.I won Johanna Skibsrud's Quartet for the End of Time in a GoodReads GiveAway. I received a large trade-paperback, smartly illustrated with a timeless photograph suggestive of the period and 468 pages of clear, medium-sized font, including two-dozen photos with index and sources.Johanna Skibsrud's Quartet for the End of Time is inspired - as told by the author in the forward - by the French Composer Olivier Messiaen's composition of music by the same name. Intrigued by

Penguin Exclusive Win Uncorrected and Unpublished ProofLooking back at the year 1932 as distrust spreads across the USA and the world. The lack of jobs and food as poverty strikes all across America even to veterans of war.We witness the struggles of three people as they deal with the landscape of the time. Their journey across the land and the people they encounter and the people they meet along the way and their story.There is an impoverished veteran travelling with his son, Arthur and Douglas

This is a beautiful book. Caveat being you need to be in the mood for the heady style; have the time to devote to diving in. It is not a read to capture 5 minutes here and there. And by style, I mean meaty, intricate thought that turns to a prose you will never forget. Johanna Skibsrud gets into the heads of each character and teases apart perception and experience of both the mundane and the profoundly intense. I now find myself more acutely aware of all of my own thoughts in a single moment

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