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  title info:
    title: Dying in character
    sub title: memoirs on the end of life
  name:
    name part: Berman, Jeffrey
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
  table of contents: Introduction: "It is when faced with death that we turn most bookish" -- "I never saw or heard the car coming": my close call with death -- "Death itself is a wonderful and positive experience": Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The wheel of life -- "With autobiography there's always another text, a countertext": Philip Roth and Patrimony -- "Death confers a certain beauty on one's hours": Harold Brodkey and This wild darkness -- "I have never been tempted to write about my own life": Susan Sontag, David Rieff, and Swimming in a sea of death -- "Sleeplessness for me is a cherished state": Edward W. Said and Out of place -- "There is more than one sort of luck": Tony Judt and The memory chalet -- "I never realized dying could be so much fun": Art Buchwald and Too soon to say goodbye -- "Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die": Morrie Schwartz's Letting go and Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie -- "I'm dying and I'm having fun": Randy Pausch and The last lecture -- "Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories": Jean-Dominique Bauby and The diving bell and The butterfly -- "I live in my suffering and that makes me happy": Roland Barthes and Mourning diary -- Conclusion: "alive when I died".
  note: Jeffrey Berman.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Death
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Self in literature
  subject:
    topic: Death in literature
  subject:
    topic: Autobiography
  subject:
    topic: Terminally ill
    geographic: United States
    topic: Biography
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Critically ill
    geographic: United States
    topic: Biography
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American prose literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Authors, American
    topic: Biography
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PS366.A88 B45 2013
  classification: 810.9/3548
  identifier: 9781613762158
  identifier: 1613762151
  identifier: 9781558499652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781558499645 (library cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1558499644
  identifier: 2012030821
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 120817
    record change date: 20260608205324.8
    record identifier: in00003408181