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by Edwidge Danticat

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A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel Garca Mrquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.

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  • Title The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
  • Author Edwidge Danticat
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press, New York
  • Publication date 2017-07-11
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781555977771 / 1555977774
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 5 x 0.7 in (17.53 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Death in literature, Creative writing
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016951195
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2017, Page 48
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2017, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 03/01/2017, Page 68
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/27/2017, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 07/11/2017, Page 0

About the author

Edwidge Danticat is the author of many books, most recently Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying. She is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and other honors.

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