Swimming in a Sea of Death

David Rieff

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS

Publication Date : 02/06/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. In this fiercely honest and beautifully written memoir, her son David chronicles the last month's of her life.

Publisher's description:

In 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer which would kill her later the same year. Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer, against all the odds, and had developed a sense of herself as somehow charmed, able to beat this disease. Written by her son, this memoir chronicles the last months of Sontag's life.

ISBN: 9781847080516