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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

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By (author): Katie Roiphe

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 221g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Apr 2017
  • Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780349008530

About Katie Roiphe

Katie Roiphe is an important voice in non-fiction. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times The Washington Post Esquire Harper's and The New Yorker. She has also written widely for the UK press.

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