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100 1 $aDanticat, Edwidge,$d1969-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe art of death :$bwriting the final story /$cEdwidge Danticat.
260 $a[Minneapolis, Minnesota] :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2017].
300 $a181 p. ;$c18 cm.
490 1 $aThe art of series.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
505 0 $aIntroduction : Writing life -- Living dyingly -- Ars moriendi -- Dying together -- Wanting to die -- Condemned to die -- Close calls -- Circles and circles of sorrow -- Feetfirst.
520 $aEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it -- Provided by publisher.
650 0$aDeath in literature.
650 0$aMortality in literature.
650 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0$aAuthorship.
830 0$aThe art of series.