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001 2010043479
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008 101019s2011 nyu 000 0ceng
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050 00 $aPS129$b.I64 2011
082 00 $a810.9/3548$222
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245 04 $aThe inevitable :$bcontemporary writers confront death /$cedited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow ; with an introduction by the editors.
246 30 $aContemporary writers confront death
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW. W. Norton & Co.,$cc2011.
300 $a332 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-332).
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rDavid Shields and Bradford Morrow --$tDeathwatch /$rDavid Gates --$tBetween the forest and the well : notes on death /$rKyoki Mori --$tBayham Street /$rRobert Clark --$tThe sutra of maggots and blowflies /$rSallie Tisdale --$tA primer for the punctuation of heart disease /$rJonathan Safran Foer --$tSilence and awakening /$rDiane Ackerman --$tA solemn pleasure /$rMelissa Pritchard --$tDeath in the age of digital proliferation, and other considerations /$rChristopher Sorrentino --$tThe siege /$rJoyce Carol Oates --$tField notes for the graveyard enthusiast /$rRobin Hemley --$tInside story /$rPeter Straub --$tInvasion to the dance /$rKevin Baker --$tDeath wish in Negroland /$rMargo Jefferson --$tGrace Street /$rGreg Bottoms --$tThe final plot /$rLynne Tillman --$tLessness /$rLance Olsen --$tBijou /$rMark Doty --$tCézanne's colors /$rBrenda Hillman --$tWhat will survive of us /$rGeoff Dyer --$tThis is the life /$rAnnie Dillard.
520 0 $aBirth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, Brenda Hillman, and Terry Castle. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$xPsychology.
650 0 $aDeath$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aFear of death.
700 1 $aShields, David,$d1956-
700 1 $aMorrow, Bradford,$d1951-