01616cam a2200337 i 4500 338116434 TxGeo 20180130120000.0 170628s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016951195 9781555977771 trade pbk. 1555977774 trade pbk. (OCoLC)957021422 TxGeo rda Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- The art of death : writing the final story / Edwidge Danticat. Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2017] 181 pages ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181). "'I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.' [Danticat's] book moves outward from the shock of her mother's [cancer] diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting ... from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a ... prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother"--Amazon.com. 20180208. Danticat, Edwidge 1969- Death in literature. Nonfiction novel Technique. Creative writing. Creative nonfiction. QS5