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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (Paperback)
$12.58 - Save $5.37 29% off - RRP $17.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The InevitableWhat is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 22 March 2011
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Theory
- ISBN 13: 9780393339369 ISBN 10: 039333936X
- Sales rank: 221,454
Full description for The Inevitable
Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes ghost bikes in memory of those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomised by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, Brenda Hillman and Terry Castle.
