The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End by Katie Roiphe

The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

Katie Roiphe

320 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography reflective slow-paced
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From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.  In ...

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