Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss

Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss

"Death Becomes Them" is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the lonely, personal nightmares behind celebrity suicides. Strauss' subjects range from Virginia Woolf to Kurt Cobain, from Elliott Smith to Adolf Hitler and from Mark Rothko to Anne Sexton. Tragic and often bizarre, Strauss unearths today's most talked about and monumental suicides that have impacted us while paying tribute to these lost souls. Each death is as diverse as the person that killed himself. Some are tragic - Dorothy Dandridge was found naked on her bathroom floor, a handful of anti-depressants swimming in her system. Others are bizarre - Hunter S. Thompson shot himself while on the phone with his wife. This is an intimate, intense companion to the unobtainable - a fond remembrance, a final goodbye.

"A truly unique, compelling and strangely life-affirming work of literary investigationThe perfect book to get you through the night. " -- Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight "Dark, grisly, and completely fascinating. I almost felt guilty for so thoroughly enjoying this look at history's most tormented souls." -- A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year Of Living Biblically "Strauss brilliantly exposes the devilry in the details and makes the profoundly moving, self-inflicted end-days of the greats a fascinating read." -- Michael Largo, author of Genuis and Heroin "A truly unique, compelling and strangely life-affirming work of literary investigation. The perfect book to get you through the night. " -- Rona Jaffe, author of The Room-Mating Season, among others

Alix Strauss is a lifestyle trend writer who appears on national morning and talk shows. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. She is the author of The Joy of Funerals, Have I Got a Guy for You, and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious.

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ISBN 13	9780061728563
ISBN 10	006172856X
Titel	Death Becomes Them
Autor	Alix Strauss
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-10-15
Seitenanzahl	352
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