The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by Bradford Morrow, David Shields

The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death

Bradford Morrow, David Shields

336 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction essays psychology challenging reflective slow-paced
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This book is ideal for readers who seek intellectually stimulating essays that provoke deep personal reflection on mortality's universal yet intimate impact.

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Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes th...

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