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Author Roiphe, Katie, author.

Title The violet hour : great writers at the end / Katie Roiphe.

Publication Info. New York : The Dial Press, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  809.9335 ROIPHE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  809 ROIPHE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  809.9335 ROIPHE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  809 RIOPHE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  809 ROI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  809.9335 ROIPHE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  809 ROI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  809.933 R63    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  809 ROI    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  809.933 ROI    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-301)
Contents Susan Sontag -- Sigmund Freud -- John Updike -- Dylan Thomas -- Maurice Sendak -- Epilogue: James Salter.
Summary Examines the final days of five great writers and artists--Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak--in an original meditation on mortality.
Subject Authors -- Death.
Authors -- Psychology.
Artists -- Death.
Artists -- Psychology.
Death.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
ISBN 9780385343596 (hardback)
0385343590 (hardback)
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