MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2015014085
003 DLC
005 20150715130445.0
008 150709s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015014085
020 $a9780385343596 (hardback)
020 $z9780812988499 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN452$b.R65 2016
082 00 $a809$223
084 $aBIO007000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRoiphe, Katie,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe violet hour /$cKatie Roiphe.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe Dial Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In this category-defying book, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She examines the final days of five great writers and artists. Here is Susan Sontag, the ultimate intellectual, finding her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Here is Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for London only to continue the constant cigar-smoking that he knows will soon kill him. Roiphe takes us to the hospital room where, after receiving the worst kind of diagnosis, seventy-six year old John Updike immediately begins writing a poem. She vividly portrays Dylan Thomas's extraordinary self-destructive tendencies that culminate in his infamous final collapse at a Greenwich Village tavern. And she shows us how Maurice Sendak's beloved books for children are infused with his lifelong obsession with death, if you know where to look. In each of these glorious creators' final moments, Roiphe finds bravery, suffering, bad behavior, passionate love, peacefulness, bursts of energy, and profound thinking. In a voice that is unsentimental, compassionate, urgent, Roiphe helps us to look boldly at death and be less afraid"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAuthors$xDeath.
650 0 $aAuthors$xPsychology.
650 0 $aArtists$xDeath.
650 0 $aArtists$xPsychology.
650 0 $aDeath.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh