Swimming In A Sea Of Death
Author: David Rieff
ISBN: 9780522855449
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
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 is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it means to confront death in our culture.
David Rieff confronts his feelings in relation to his mother—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, and to try almost anything in order to go on living.
ISBN: 9780522855449
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
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 is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it means to confront death in our culture.
David Rieff confronts his feelings in relation to his mother—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, and to try almost anything in order to go on living.
