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The violet hour : great writers at the end /

"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.--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roiphe, Katie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Dial Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Authors > Death.
Authors > Psychology.
Artists > Death.
Artists > Psychology.
Death.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
Description
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.--
Physical Description:306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301).
ISBN:9780385343596
0385343590