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Swimming in a Sea of Death

Paperback • 2008 • English

Swimming in a Sea of Death

By David Rieff

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About the book

Both a memoir and an investigation, "Swimming in a Sea of Death" is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the t...Show more

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ISBN

9780743299473

Publisher

Simon Schuster

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Swimming in a Sea of Death

Format

Paperback

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