The Violet Hour
Great Writers at the End
$39.77
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2017
Summary
The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death
Katie Roiphe’s extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Seventy-six year old John Updike’s response to a fatal diagnosis is to begin a poem. Dylan Thomas’s fatal collapse on the floor of a Greenwich Village tavern is preced…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349008530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349008531 |
| Author: | Katie Roiphe |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 221g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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Her technique is never anything less than insightful … on every page, she turns up something interesting, lets in some astonishing shaft of light. Her writing is elegant, cool, unforgettable - Observer
Engrossing … Such an immersive book is testament to her remarkable literary skills. This is an immensely sympathetic and satisfying read - Sunday TimesRoiphe is an acute reader and listener with antennae tuned to pick up every nuance, and to penetrate the meaning behind meaning - Daily MailEach essay reads like an intelligently speculative biography with the boring bits left out - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Katie Roiphe
Katie Roiphe is an important voice in non-fiction. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper’s and The New Yorker. She has also written widely for the UK press.
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