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Swimming in a sea of death
a son's memoir
By Rieff, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-74329-946-6
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2007
The death of a parent is never easy, but when your mother is the well-known Susan Sontag, is a memoir even necessary? For Rieff (At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention), it serves as a clarification of his mother's beliefs, a critique of the medical community, and a brief rest from the survivor's guilt trip. As he says, "I still cannot believe there was nothing I could do to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
