The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071Z84D4H |
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| Number of Pages | : | 129 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is an audiobook that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.. A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light. 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. 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