Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

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Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

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In 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed a sense of herself as somehow charmed, able to beat this disease. Written by her son, this memoir chronicles the last months of Sontag's life.

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Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff

In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. In this fiercely honest and beautifully written memoir, her son David Rieff chronicles the last months of Sontag's life. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed a sense of herself as somehow charmed, able to beat this disease. She also had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff details her reaction to the diagnosis, and the way that her friends and doctors responded to her shock and grief.He writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about his own contradictory emotions: his guilt both for not consoling her enough, and for somehow colluding with her in her belief that she could beat the disease. Drawing on Sontag's journals and letters, which Rieff read after her death, and on the writings about death of other great thinkers, "Swimming in a Sea of Death" provides a vivid portrait of Sontag in the last year of her life and a haunting meditation on mortality.
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ISBN 13 9781847080516
ISBN 10 1847080510
Title Swimming in a Sea of Death
Author David Rieff
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Granta Books
Year published 2008-06-02
Number of pages 179
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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