Isbn: 9780743299466 - swimming in a sea of death: a son's memoir (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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 time comes, to die with dignity. Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living. Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Death subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 180 pages ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Rieff, David. Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 - Last years. Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 - Health. Authors, American - 20th century - Biography. Cancer - Patients - United States - Biography. Mothers and sons - United States - Biography. Cancer - Patients - Family relationships. Mothers - Death. Women authors, American - Biography. Children of cancer patients - United States - Biography. Children of authors - United States - Biography. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Simon & Schuster, 2008. Signed by Author on Title page; First Editon, first printing with full number line; dustjacket very faintly rubed/bumped, top edge very lightly bumped, previous bookseller's "Autographed Copy" sticker front flap; cover bottom spine end lightly bumped, bottom corners very barely rubbed; edges lightly sunned; binding tight; dustjacket, cover, edges and interior intact and exceptionally clean; a nice copy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…