Bibliograph

The violet hour, great writers at the end, Katie Roiphe

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The violet hour, great writers at the end, Katie Roiphe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The violet hour

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

913890189

Responsibility statement

Katie Roiphe

Sub title

great writers at the end

Summary

"Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She investigates the final days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists": Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Slater.--, Provided by publisherRoiphe investigates the final days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists. In exploring their deaths, she makes intimate and surprising revelations about their lives, as well as insight into how the mind creates its own comfort. By bringing their final days to life, she helps us to look in the face of death and be less afraid

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Susan Sontag -- Sigmund Freud -- John Updike -- Dylan Thomas -- Maurice Sendak -- Epilogue: James Salter

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