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Swimming in a Sea of DeathBoth a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. 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
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. 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. 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. 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. Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Death subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: SS - Simon & Schuster
Published: 04/04/2016
ISBN: 9780743299473
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 03/01/2009 pg. 20
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I tried a few times to get my four dogs to interact this this ball toy, but they are clearly not interested.
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My dog loves it
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My miniature schnauzer loves it keeps him going for hours in like the fact I can open it and take the electric part out to charge it wile my dog can still play with the ball it only lasts for 45min before it has to be charged best ball I have bought in a wile my dog loves it
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The dog loves it!
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Our dog can't get enough of this toy but the charge doesn't last too long but would buy again.
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Short lasting. But lots of fun while it lasted
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My dog loved it. Lasted 10 minutes, it constantly broke open. Could not be repaired. Not a happy camper! Don’t
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