The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
by David Shields
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In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, Brenda Hillman, and Terry Castle.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
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- SQ5788710
- Title
- The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
- Author
- David Shields
- Format/Binding
- Extensive underlining/highlighting
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 039333936X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393339369
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-02
- Keywords
- writing, death, mortality
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- Writing;
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