4 stars
Katie Roiphe researches five writers and their deaths, Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas and Maurice Sendak. The writer's approaches to death is about as different as the writers themselves. I found this book interesting, strangely invasive and surprisingly thought-provoking. There has been a lot written lately about the way those that live in the Western world choose to die, fighting to the very end without regard to expense or pain. These artists cover the gamut of ways to die but what I found most interesting is the ways in which their earlier work played into their own concepts of death. Well-written with lots of fascinating details, this book will be of interest to anyone who is familiar with these writers or who has an interest in end of life choices. I received a digital ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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