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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Roiphe, Katie.     Subjects     Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.     Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.     Updike, John.     Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.     Sendak, Maurice.     Salter, James.     Authors -- Death.     Authors -- Psychology.     Death.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Roiphe, Katie.       by title:      The violet hour : gr...       by call number:      809 R741v     Search the Web     Roiphe, Katie.     Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.     Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.     Updike, John.     Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.     Sendak, Maurice.     Salter, James.     Authors -- Death.     Authors -- Psychology.     Death.       MARC Display

The violet hour : great writers at the end / Katie Roiphe. by Roiphe, Katie. The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, [2016] Call #: 809 R741v Subjects Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.   Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.   Updike, John.   Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.   Sendak, Maurice.   Salter, James.   Authors -- Death.   Authors -- Psychology.   Death. ISBN:  9780385343596 (hc.) 0385343590 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301). Contents:  Susan Sontag -- Sigmund Freud -- John Updike -- Dylan Thomas -- Maurice Sendak -- James Salter. Summary:  "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"-- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 809 R741v Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 809 R741v Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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