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      The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

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      From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter.

      The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - ...

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      Product ID:9780349008530
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The Violet Hour
      Subtitle:Great Writers at the End
      Authors:Author: Katie Roiphe
      Page Count:320
      Subjects:Collected biographies, Collected biographies, Literary studies: general, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Literary studies: general, Coping with death & bereavement, English
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      From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter.

      The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death

      Katie Roiphe''s extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Seventy-six year old John Updike''s response to a fatal diagnosis is to begin a poem. Dylan Thomas''s fatal collapse on the floor of a Greenwich Village tavern is preceded by a fortnight of almost suicidal excess. Sigmund Freud understands his hastening decline. Maurice Sendak shows his lifelong obsession with death in his beloved books.

      The Violet Hour - urgent and unsentimental - helps us to be less afraid in the face of death.


      Imprint Name:Virago Press Ltd
      Publisher Name:Little, Brown Book Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2017-04-06

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      Weight228 g
      Dimensions128 × 196 × 20 mm