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  Title

  The art of death : writing the final story

  Author

  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-  

  Publisher:

  Graywolf Press,

  Pub date:

  [2017]

  Description:

  181 pages ;

  ISBN:

  1555977774

  Item info:

  1 copy currently available - Libbie Mill Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    	Copy	Format	Location
    809.9335 DANTICA	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction

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  The art of death : writing the final story
  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
  

  Personal Author:

  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

  Title:

  The art of death : writing the final story / Edwidge Danticat.

  Publication Info:

  Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]

  Physical descrip:

  181 pages ; 18 cm.

  Series:

  (The art of series)

  Contents:

  Introduction: Writing life -- Living dyingly -- Ars moriendi -- Dying together -- Wanting to die -- Condemned to die -- Close calls -- Circles and circles of sorrow -- Feetfirst.

  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. "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 Garc{acute}ia M{acute}arquez'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 -- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  LIBBIEMILL

  Subject term:

  Death in literature.

  Subject term:

  Literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  Mortality in literature.