Dying in Character: Memoirs on the End of Life

by Jeffrey Berman

In the past twenty years, an increasing number of authors have written memoirs focusing on the last stage of their lives: Elizabeth K 1/4bler-Ross, for example, in The Wheel of Life, Harold Brodkey in This Wild Darkness, Edward Said in Out of Place, and Tony Judt in The Memory Chalet. In these and other end-of-life memoirs, writers not only confront their own mortality but in most cases struggle to "die in character"--that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499652
• ISBN13: 9781558499652
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher