David Rieff: Swimming In A Sea Of Death

Cover: 9781847080752 | Swimming In A Sea Of Death | A Son's Memoir | David Rieff | Buch

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In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about his own contradictory emotions: his guilt both for not consoling her enough, and for somehow colluding with her in her belief that she could beat the disease. Drawing on Sontag's journals and letters, which Rieff read after her death, and on the writings about the deaths of other great thinkers, Swimming in a Sea of Death provides a vivid portrait of Sontag in the last year of her life and a haunting meditation on mortality.

Über den Autor

David Rieff is a contributing writer to The New York Times [...] is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse Bosnia and the Failure of the West.He lives in New York City.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781847080752
ISBN-10:	1847080758
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rieff, David
Hersteller:	Granta Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	200 x 129 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	David Rieff
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.04.2009
Gewicht:	0,149 kg