[September Song 01] • September Song

**From one of America’s most acclaimed authors comes a masterful collection of bittersweet tales about the autumn of life**

In the exquisite title story, seventy-six-year-old Virginia Tyler will finally marry the love of her life—as soon as she finds the courage to leave her husband of almost fifty years. In “The Apple of Discord,” a Hudson Valley farmer, heartsick that none of his three daughters or their husbands wants to keep the family orchard, commits an act of desperation.“Vissi d’Arte” is the poignant story of a husband whose belief that his wife is destined to become a world-famous painter borders on the delirious. In “A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man,” an aging writer realizes that the young reporter sent from the big-city newspaper to interview him is gathering material for his obituary. The lies he tells her are a delicious act of defiance. 

By turns tender, funny, and sad, *September Song *is William Humphrey at his most eloquent and empathetic.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author’s estate.