{"product_id":"swimming-in-a-sea-of-death-paperback","title":"Swimming in a Sea of Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRieff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoth a memoir and an investigation, \u003ci\u003eSwimming in a Sea of Death\u003c\/i\u003e is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.\u003c\/b\u003e Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, \u003ci\u003eSwimming in a Sea of Death\u003c\/i\u003e subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including \u003ci\u003eSwimming in a Sea of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAt the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52445077897523,"sku":"9780743299473","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SUZkZ2ZQMUkzZ2QrbCtSN0ZQa0xxZz09.webp?v=1758956248","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/swimming-in-a-sea-of-death-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}