The violet hour : great writers at the end
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Roiphe, Katie,
Published
New York : The Dial Press, [2016].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
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306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
809.9335 Roi
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Published
New York : The Dial Press, [2016].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301).
Description
"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.--,Provided by publisher.

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Artists -- Death.
Artists -- Psychology.
Authors -- Death.
Authors -- Psychology.
Biographies.
Death.