{"product_id":"9780349008530","title":"The Violet Hour","description":"Author: Katie Roiphe\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349008530\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 Jun 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Seventy-six year old John Updike's response to a fatal diagnosis is to begin a poem. Dylan Thomas's fatal collapse on the floor of a Greenwich Village tavern is preceded by a fortnight of almost suicidal excess. Sigmund Freud understands his hastening decline. Maurice Sendak shows his lifelong obsession with death in his beloved books.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE VIOLET HOUR\u003c\/i\u003e - urgent and unsentimental - helps us to be less afraid in the face of death.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901040509086,"sku":"ING-9780349008530","price":40.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349008530.jpg?v=1782352194","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349008530","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}