As Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons opens, the Second World War has just ended and Joe Keller has been acquitted of the crime of knowingly shipping faulty airplane parts to American pilots overseas. Joe’s younger son, Chris, has returned safely from the war, but his elder son, Larry (a pilot) has not. With the exception of Keller’s wife, Kate, the characters are attempting to leave the past quietly behind.
A Process of Uncovering: An Interview with Johanna Skibsrud
A Process of Uncovering: An Interview with Johanna Skibsrud
Johanna Skibsrud talks to Molly Antopol about Quartet for the End of Time's musical legacy and the political and personal histories at the heart of her latest novel.
Salon interview with Joan Silber: "Exploring a swing from extreme left to right"
Exploring a swing from extreme left to right
Exploring war and best and worst of American dream with Johanna Skibsrud, author of "Quartet for the End of Time"
Largehearted boy: Quartet for the End of Time music "playlist"
In her own words, here is Johanna Skibsrud's Book Notes music playlist for her novel Quartet for the End of Time.
Quartet for the End of Time: A strange and beautiful work
Quartet is a strange, deeply compassionate, and beautiful work...
Like The Sentimentalists, Quartet explores the limits of moral freedom and the mutability of human perceptions. But its characters are less important in themselves than as notes in an all-encompassing, eternal music, and its great breadth of vision signifies an artistic leap.