The art of death : writing the final story / Edwidge Danticat.
The art of death : writing the final story / Edwidge Danticat.
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Publisher
[Minneapolis, Minnesota] : Graywolf Press, [2017]
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G 2017/6077
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Language
English
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Physical content
181 pages ; 18 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : Writing life -- Living dyingly -- Ars moriendi -- Dying together -- Wanting to die -- Condemned to die -- Close calls -- Circles and circles of sorrow -- Feetfirst.
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Publisher
[Minneapolis, Minnesota] : Graywolf Press, [2017]
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Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
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....
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The art of death : writing the final story / Edwidge Danticat.
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The art of series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
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©2017
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G 2017/6077
Record Identifier
74VKVgBPKJOl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgBPKJOl
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ISBN
1555977774 (paperback)
9781555977771 (paperback)
DDC
809.933548
MMS ID
991024148811302626
