Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son's Memoir

Name: Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son's Memoir
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ISBN: 9780743299473

ISBN-10: 0743299477

ISBN-13: 9780743299473

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Rieff

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Both a memoir and an investigation,Swimming in a Sea of Deathis David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English