Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Sons Memoir

In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about his own contradictory emotions: his guilt both for not consoling her enough, and for somehow colluding with her in her belief that she could beat the disease. Drawing on Sontag's journals and letters, which Rieff read after her death, and on the writings about the deaths of other great thinkers, Swimming in a Sea of Death provides a vivid portrait of Sontag in the last year of her life and a haunting meditation on mortality.

Title - Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Sons Memoir

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Author - David Rieff

ISBN 13 - 9781847080752

Imprint - Granta Books

Publisher - Granta Books

Date Published - 06/04/2009

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 13mm

Weight - 148 g

Languages - English