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020			_a9781555977771
082	1		_a809.9335 DAN _2
100	1		_aDanticat, Edwidge, 1969-
245	1	4	_aThe art of death : _bwriting the final story _c/ Edwidge Danticat
260			_aMinneapolis, MN _b: Graywolf Press _c, 2017
300			_a181 p. _c; 18 cm
490	1		_aThe art of series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aIntroduction : Writing life -- Living dyingly -- Ars moriendi -- Dying together -- Wanting to die -- Condemned to die -- Close calls -- Circles and circles of sorrow -- Feetfirst.
520			_aEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses," Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aDeath in literature
650		4	_aMortality in literature
650		4	_aLiterature _x-History and criticism
650		4	_aAuthorship.
942			_cMO
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