Books by Jonathan Strong and Complete Book Reviews
Jonathan Strong, Author Zoland Books $19.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-944072-32-5
Primordial New England might well describe Strong's ( Elsewhere ) enjoyable, challenging third novel. It is an oozy, fecund tale of male, female, hetero and homosexual identity. Through his objective, yet intimately knowledgeable narrator, local...
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Jonathan Strong, Author Zoland Books $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-944072-28-8
Dan and Simeon Poore, troubled brothers in ``Doing and Undoing,'' the first of two fine novellas featured here, return to the bizzare home where they grew up, an Illinois farm house transmogrified into a gothic castle complete with turrets and...
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Jonathan Strong, Author Zoland Books $14.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-944072-55-4
Lincoln and Isabella (Izzy) are former 1960s activists now living in the suburbs with their three sons, Obadiah, Malachi and Zephaniah. The couple raises the children as if they're in a simpler, idealized era, and, while the boys attend the local...
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Jonathan Strong, Author Zoland Books $13.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-944072-81-3
""Dearest One--We want to tell you what's become of us."" So begins this slim, ethereal novel about a WWII refugee and her relationship with four middle-class Massachusetts high-school students. A quarter century after flirtatious, erudite Anna...
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Jonathan Strong, Author Zoland Books $13 (360p) ISBN 978-1-58195-014-4
A divorced mother, her four grown children, their friends, neighbors, significant others and ex-significant others make up the interlocking cast of characters in this modern family portrait. At 49, divorc e Mary Lanaghan lives alone in her lakeside...
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