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The violet hour : great writers at the end
Title:
The violet hour : great writers at the end
ISBN:
9780385343596
Physical Description:
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Susan Sontag -- Sigmund Freud -- John Updike -- Dylan Thomas -- Maurice Sendak -- Epilogue: James Salter.
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 publisher.