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The art of death writing the final story

Danticat's story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work.

Main Author:	Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (Author)
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2017]
Edition:	Unabridged.
Subjects:	Danticat, Edwidge, > 1969- Death in literature. Mortality in literature. Literature > History and criticism. Audiobooks.

Summary:	Danticat's story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work.
Item Description:	Title from container. Compact discs. In container (17 cm.).
Physical Description:	4 audio discs (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:	04:30:00
ISBN:	9781501954078 1501954075
Author Notes:	Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. (Bowker Author Biography)

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