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The violet hour : great writers at the end
- Title
- The violet hour : great writers at the end / Katie Roiphe.
- Author
- Roiphe, Katie
- Publication
- New York : The Dial Press, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-1858 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 306 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In this category-defying book, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She examines the final days of five great writers and artists. Here is Susan Sontag, the ultimate intellectual, finding her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Here is Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for London only to continue the constant cigar-smoking that he knows will soon kill him. Roiphe takes us to the hospital room where, after receiving the worst kind of diagnosis, seventy-six year old John Updike immediately begins writing a poem. She vividly portrays Dylan Thomas's extraordinary self-destructive tendencies that culminate in his infamous final collapse at a Greenwich Village tavern. And she shows us how Maurice Sendak's beloved books for children are infused with his lifelong obsession with death, if you know where to look. In each of these glorious creators' final moments, Roiphe finds bravery, suffering, bad behavior, passionate love, peacefulness, bursts of energy, and profound thinking. In a voice that is unsentimental, compassionate, urgent, Roiphe helps us to look boldly at death and be less afraid"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301).
- Call Number
- JFD 16-1858
- ISBN
- 9780385343596
- 0385343590
- LCCN
- 2015014085
- OCLC
- 2015014085
- Author
- Roiphe, Katie, author.
- Title
- The violet hour : great writers at the end / Katie Roiphe.
- Publisher
- New York : The Dial Press, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-1858