The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

by Katie Roiphe

Book Overview

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter--an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists as they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385343590
• ISBN13: 9780385343596
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"