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In this elegant and beautifully written set of elegies, Katie Roiphe looks death squarely in the face, describing how people evanesce, how others lose them, how they lose themselves, how writing is a means to negotiate for immortality. This courageous, generous, intimate book is suffused with affection, and therefore provides comfort even when its topic is the loneliness that inheres in finality Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree
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The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- The Violet Hour
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Katie Roiphe
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0349008531
- ISBN13
- 9780349008530
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Death, Writing, About Books
- Rating
- 2.7 out of 5
- Description
- In this elegant and beautifully written set of elegies, Katie Roiphe looks death squarely in the face, describing how people evanesce, how others lose them, how they lose themselves, how writing is a means to negotiate for immortality. This courageous, generous, intimate book is suffused with affection, and therefore provides comfort even when its topic is the loneliness that inheres in finality Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree